The dispute over judicial elections versus merit selection in Indiana’s most populous — and diverse — counties isn’t new, but it is ongoing. Right now, the debate seems to be centered on Lake County.
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Lake Circuit Court Judge Marissa McDermott recently discovered a pair of guns tied to a famous murder in The Region more than 50 years ago.
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Motivated by a Lake County recorder who did not show up for work for more than a year, the Indiana General Assembly took an unusual step during the 2021 session and created a narrow pathway for local governments to remove one of their own instead of waiting for the voters to take action.
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The pictures of sun-drenched homes and neatly trimmed lawns in East Chicago showcase what is perhaps the best outcome. However, the images belie the nightmare many residents are still living. The homes along with the neighboring West Calumet Housing Project and Carrie Gosch Elementary School were all built on the USS Lead Superfund site.
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Each of the lawsuits accuses Crown Cremation Service LLC and Heights Crematory Inc. of allowing the bodies of loved ones to be stored improperly in trailers on Heights Crematory’s property.
The lawsuit alleges that the husband’s body wasn’t cremated until 19 days after his death and was one of at least 100 corpses that ended up being improperly stored in trailers in Chicago.
Lake County officials are pointing to new data showing that homeowners have taken on an unfair share of property taxes in at least nine counties.
While a majority of the Indiana Supreme Court justices agreed with the punishment, two said they believed Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins should be removed from office.
The court, created in 2014, will serve as a national mentor to leaders working to create veteran treatment courts in their jurisdictions.
The filing challenges a Lake Superior Court judge’s decision last year not to dismiss the lawsuit despite a new state law that retroactively stripped Gary and all Indiana municipalities of their authority to sue the gun industry.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission has announced five finalists to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Stephen Scheele to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission will be interviewing five applicants next week to fill a vacancy in the county’s trial court civil division.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission is accepting applications for a new superior court judge in Lake County.
Stephen “Sam” Scheele said he is honored to be appointed two separate times to judgeships by Gov. Eric Holcomb, first to Lake Superior Court and now to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications charged Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins Monday with three counts of misconduct.
A Valparaiso couple was awarded $25.8 million in damages by a Lake County jury after a medical center failed to transfer test results that contained information about the husband’s cancer diagnosis.
The Indiana Tax Court has affirmed the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance’s determination that the Lake County Assessor correctly developed the county’s land order in 2022.
An Indiana trial court correctly granted judgment to an insurance company because evidence showed the company had no special duty to a family following a 2017 accident, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in an opinion issued Monday.
An ex-husband’s claims that his ex-wife engaged in criminal activity at her job are protected by the First Amendment, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
After reinstating a woman’s neglect conviction based on trial court error, the Court of Appeals of Indiana then reversed that conviction based on insufficient evidence.
Despite obvious disdain for the disparities, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the state on a lawsuit alleging the process of judicial selection — rather than election — in Lake County is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
In the continued litigation over whether and when the Merrillville Town Court should be shut down, the court’s judge has lost his appeal of a summary judgment ruling in favor of the town council’s passage of an ordinance on the court’s eventual closure.
A debit card left behind at the scene of a fatal shooting helped police in Gary track down and arrest a man suspected of killing a fellow customer at a grocery store.
The grant of sole legal custody of a child to the mother and an order for the father’s parenting time to be supervised were not erroneous, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday.