The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday announced the upcoming launch of a pilot program allowing media recording in several trial courts.

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David announced Wednesday he will step down in fall 2022. He is the longest-serving justice currently on the court.

The Indiana Supreme Court's order requires judges to tell landlords and tenants in an eviction hearing about available resources – emergency rental assistance, legal help and a state landlord-tenant settlement program.

Beginning next month, judges hearing eviction cases in the state must inform the landlord and tenant of pre-eviction resources.

The Indiana Eviction Task Force will review the state's eviction process and make recommendations for implementing a pre-eviction diversion program.

Attorney General Todd Rokita petitioned the Indiana Supreme Court last month after a Marion County judge ruled against arguments from his office that he alone has the legal authority to represent the state in court and can decide whether the new law is allowed under the state constitution.

The revenge porn law makes it a crime to share a so-called "intimate image" if the person sharing it knows the person in the image didn’t consent to it being shared.

In 2013, police took Tyson Timbs’s $35,000 Land Rover after he used it to transport a few hundred dollars' worth of heroin. While Timbs pleaded guilty to dealing drugs, he challenged the police seizure of his vehicle, arguing it was an unconstitutionally excessive fine.

Indiana's high court rejected arguments from the state attorney general's office that the vehicle seizure was proper because it was used in commission of a crime.