Legally Brief

On March 6th, the Indiana General Assembly passed Senate Bill 12 from the Senate committee on Judiciary to the House Committee on Education. The bill allows for books that are deemed “harmful” to [...]

Nearly 14,000 Hoosiers have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The deaths take a toll on the emotions of their families, but also on their finances. Funerals are expensive, totaling [...]

The CDC’s Eviction Ban Is No Longer in Place.  Background: The Alabama Association of Realtors, along with other plaintiffs, challenged the validity of the Centers for Disease Control and [...]

By ICADV Chief Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett Indiana’s Emancipation Age In Indiana, the emancipation age is 19 years old. A child is emancipated by law when the child reaches 19 years of age. [...]

By ICADV Chief Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett I’m sharing a snip of a recent article by Julie Whitman, Executive Director of the Commission on Improving the Status of Children in Indiana. My [...]

Starting July 1, 2020 the Indiana Attorney General’s Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) allows victims of harassment, human trafficking, intimidation, or invasion of privacy to participate in [...]

by ICADV Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett  This was a great week (and a proud week) to be a lawyer, in my opinion.  Two landmark and pivotal decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States [...]

On April 23, 2020, the EEOC issued new guidance clarifying that employers may conduct mandatory testing of employees for COVID-19 before they enter the workplace so long as the testing is [...]

Background: What is Title IX? Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from [...]