Olivia Covington

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.

In a case that came down to “who knew what and when they knew it,” a federal judge has dismissed the Title IX lawsuit filed against Huntington University and various school officials by former student-athletes who say they were doped and sexually assaulted.

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.

The city of Elkhart and several former law enforcement officers have agreed to pay $11,725,000 to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit filed by a man with an intellectual disability who was exonerated from a murder conviction after nearly 17 years in prison.

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.