Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb announced his selection of Derek Molter this past week from among three finalists picked by the state judicial nominating commission.

The Indiana appeals court has upheld a $112 million jury verdict in favor of a Carmel spine surgeon who sued medical device maker Medtronic over devices he invented and sold to the company.

Gov. Eric Holcomb picked Leanna Weissmann from the Dearborn County city of Aurora to replace Judge John Baker, who retired from the court in July after serving 31 years.

Attorney General Curtis Hill recently filed a petition asking the Indiana Supreme Court to accept transfer of his civil lawsuit.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has ordered a new sentencing hearing for a northwestern Indiana man serving 183 years in prison for two slaying when he was 16.

In April, the court said Indianas Right to Farm Act prevents the couples from bringing a nuisance suit because the farm existed before they moved in.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has declined to rehear a couple's lawsuit seeking to stop a neighbor's logging of his private property along Lake Monroe.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to the state's Right to Farm Act that was part of two families' lawsuit alleging that a large hog farm deprived them of their property rights.

The Indianapolis-based church filed the legal challenge after the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed in 2015.