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Merrillville leaders to concede to AG Rokita, plan to retract stance against ICE
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (862+ words) Merrillville town leaders plan to fall in line with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s demand that they not interfere with federal immigration real estate transactions. The Merrillville Town Council will meet Tuesday evening to rescind a resolution it passed earlier…...
Indiana Supreme Court hands casinos win, clarifies tax add-back law
1+ week, 1+ day ago (661+ words) The Indiana Supreme Court last week narrowed the state’s income tax add-back requirements for casinos, preventing the Department of Revenue from inflating taxable income with unapportioned gaming taxes. But the Supreme Court determined that the statute’s language refers to direct…...
Rep. Michael Aylesworth: Constitutional fix would ease state’s rural judicial shortage
1+ week, 4+ day ago (276+ words) The 2026 legislative session recently wrapped up, and one new law I authored addresses the growing rural judge shortage across our state by easing residency requirements through an Indiana constitutional amendment. According to an American Bar Association study, there are only…...
Dustin Houchin: Curbing violent crime starts with limiting Indy’s disorder
1+ week, 4+ day ago (223+ words) The second law of thermodynamics says that systems naturally evolve toward states of higher entropy. Entropy, which is a measure of disorder, requires the application of energy to overcome it. To put it more simply, things tend to get disorganized…...
Court of Appeals reverses trial court’s ruling that city of South Bend is not liable for pothole injury
2+ week, 1+ day ago (392+ words) The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that the city of South Bend should not be held liable for the injuries a man obtained after falling into a pothole in downtown South Bend two years ago. The…...
Jason Murrey: Why JLAP? Even the best must call in for air support.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (16+ words) The Indiana Lawyer...
Attorney general secures charges in 8 Medicaid fraud cases in Indiana
2+ week, 4+ day ago (242+ words) Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced Friday that his office has taken legal action in several counties across the state for alleged Medicaid fraud in nursing homes. Working with prosecutors, the Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has secured…...
Measures address homelessness, violent crime, court records and immigration
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1734+ words) A series of new Indiana laws are resshaping how the state handles public camping, violent offenders, court-record privacy and immigration enforcement. Some laws that passed during the Legislature’s spring session have already been active for months, but others will take…...
Katie Osborne: Beware of waiving protections for long-term care facilities
2+ week, 4+ day ago (191+ words) The Medical Malpractice Act The act establishes a framework for handling medical malpractice claims against qualified health care providers in Indiana. Two important protections available to providers via the MMA are the medical review panel requirement and the statutory caps…...
Case raises ethics questions about attorneys who switch firms
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1113+ words) An attorney who worked at a well-known Kentucky-based firm is accusing his former employer of anticompetitive practices, claiming in a lawsuit that the firm has imposed unreasonable stipulations on how he can move forward with cases where he works now....