Articles tagged as: 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
February 28, 2024
Indiana’s gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth takes effect after higher court’s ruling
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an injunction on Indiana's gender-affirming care ban for Hoosiers younger than 18. The law now takes effect immediately.
Read MoreApril 7, 2022
Indiana ruled not liable in groping suit vs. ex-top lawyer
A federal appeals court has ruled the women who claimed Indiana's former attorney general drunkenly groped them cannot pursue a lawsuit against the state government under federal sexual harassment laws.
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2021
Appeals Court Keeps Indiana Anti-Abortion Laws In Place, Temporarily Halts Earlier Ruling
The ruling from last month by federal Judge Sarah Evans Barker said that several abortion regulations were unconstitutional.
Read MoreAugust 24, 2021
Federal Appeals Court OKs Indiana Sex Offender Registry Law
Indiana's sex offender registry law does not require offenders to register if they were convicted before it was created in the 1990s.
Read MoreAugust 12, 2021
Indiana Officials Appealing Decision Against Abortion Laws
The Indiana attorney general's office has started an appeal of a federal judge's ruling that several state laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state's ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.
Read MoreMarch 12, 2021
Indiana Loses In Federal Court, Again, Over 2017 Anti-Abortion Law
The measure in question allows a judge to tell an underage person's parents that they're asking the court to waive the state's parental consent requirement for an abortion
Read MoreDecember 16, 2020
Senate Confirms Barrett Replacement On Federal Appeals Court
Thomas Kirsch, who currently serves as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, will replace Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Read MoreOctober 26, 2020
Hoosiers Voters Can't Ask State Courts To Keep Polls Open Longer If Problems Arise
A federal appeals court upheld a 2019 Indiana law that only allows a county election board to file such a lawsuit.
Read MoreOctober 26, 2020
US Court Backs Indiana's Limits On Voting Time Extensions
A federal appeals court has upheld a law unique to Indiana that prohibits voters from asking county judges to extend voting hours beyond the state's 6 p.m. closing time because of Election Day troubles.
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2020
Vote-By-Mail Advocates Take Case To Federal Appeals Court
A group of Indiana residents trying to force the state to allow all Hoosier voters to cast mail-in ballots this year have their day in a federal appeals court Wednesday.
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