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Dickson says courts are more accessible to Hoosiers than ever
Radio report Indiana’s chief justice gave his State of the Judiciary speech to the General Assembly on Wednesday. Natavia Howell of TheStatehouseFile.com reports: By Tyler Gribbons TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Hoosiers have more access to the state’s high court now than would have even been possible 25 years ago, Chief Justice Brent Dickson told lawmakers [...]
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Attorneys battle over Girl Scout camp at state’s high court
By Darian Eswine TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — A contract dispute between two Girl Scout groups over a former camp in Southwestern Indiana landed in the Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Vincennes Indiana Girls turned Camp Wildwood in Knox County to the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois back in 1965 during a reorganization of the national [...]
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Chief Justice Brent Dickson to give his first State of the Judiciary address
By Tyler Gribbons TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Dickson will give his first State of the Judiciary speech on Wednesday, about nine months after he became took over as the court’s top judge. It will be the first time in a quarter century the State of the Judiciary has not come [...]
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Correction: Dickson would not be affected by bill to eliminate retirement age for appellate judges
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Chief Justice Brent Dickson and several other members of the state’s appellate courts would not be affected by a bill to eliminate a mandatory retirement age. Senate Bill 124, authored by Sen. Jim Buck, R-Kokomo, would eliminate the state’s mandatory retirement age of 75 for members of the [...]
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Bill would eliminate mandatory retirement age for appellate judges – CORRECTED
Editor’s note: The original story in this post contained incorrect information that could not be easily fixed without completely rewriting the story. We thought that would be disingenuous to those who had visited this post and read the story previously. Therefore, we are including up top a new story that corrects the information. Below that, you will [...]
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Loretta Rush has ceremonial swearing in as Indiana Supreme Court justice
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Loretta Rush of Lafayette – just the second woman to serve on the Indiana Supreme Court – took a ceremonial oath on Friday at the Indiana Statehouse, more than one month after she officially began her duties. Gov. Mitch Daniels appointed Rush in September but she continued her work as [...]
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Teachers union tells state high court that vouchers are unconstitutional
By Tim Grimes TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – An attorney for the state’s largest teachers’ union told the Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday that the state’s private school voucher program is unconstitutional because it uses taxpayer money to fund religious activities. Indiana’s school choice scholarships – more c ommonly known as vouchers – passed the General Assembly [...]
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Tippecanoe County judge becomes second woman on Indiana Supreme Court
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana will have its first female Supreme Court justice in 13 years – and only the second in the state’s history. Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Friday that he was appointing Tippecanoe County juvenile court judge Loretta Hogan Rush to the state’s highest court. “In studying Judge Rush’s stellar legal and [...]
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10 schools win visit from Indiana Supreme Court justices
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Supreme Court justices plan to visit 10 schools as part of a statewide contest to celebrate Constitution Day. The schools were chosen from among 40 applicants. Teachers had to describe why a visit from one of the state’s five justices would benefit their classrooms. Court officials said the program [...]
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Commentary: Still vouching for vouchers
By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz IndyPolitics.org If a local church in your community were to catch fire, should your local fire department let it burn to the ground? If a local priest, minister or rabbi were being robbed, should the cops just drive by and tell him he’s out of luck? Or should the government make it [...]