Olivia Covington

A search warrant for a defendant’s phone was executed when the phone was seized, meaning a detective did not have to inform the trial court that the allegations underpinning the warrant were recanted before the phone was searched.

A federal judge has dismissed a Fourth Amendment unreasonable seizure claim filed against four Department of Child Services employees who were sued after five children were removed from their adoptive parents and were subsequently killed in a house fire.

In a case accusing both the trial judge and the Indiana Department of Child Services of “inexplicably ignor(ing)” the best interests of a child, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed the dismissal of the CHINS case.

In reopening the window for the submission of evidence on whether a student who sued her school over a dispute about an anti-abortion club provided proper notice, a federal judge said she felt “misled” by the parties’ lack of candor.

In the three contested races for an Indiana city or town court judge, the Republican incumbents seeking reelection Tuesday appeared victorious.

The man convicted of the 2015 murder of a pregnant Indianapolis pastor’s wife has lost his argument on appeal that inadmissible statements to law enforcement undercut his convictions of murder and other charges.

The legal fight over Indiana’s new abortion law has reignited in the Monroe Circuit Court, where abortion providers are once again asking for an injunction against the law on Indiana constitutional grounds.

Former Indiana State Rep. Sean Eberhart has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud as part of his dealings with a gaming company that has landed others in prison.

While an administrative law judge might have erred in his analysis of some factors in rejecting a woman’s disability benefits application, “enough” of his analysis supported his ruling, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in affirming the benefits denial.

An inmate alleging his constitutional rights were violated in a prison disciplinary process that put him in segregation for two years has failed to find relief at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.