APPELLATE PAUSE: Rokita’s dispute over inspector general’s report on hold while attorney James Bopp fights election law and unpaid legal fees
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen June 9, 2023 Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s battle to keep private a report about his attempt to moonlight while holding public office is taking a breather as his attorneys from The Bopp Law Firm tend to their own legal matters in “...”
MLB HEARING: Attorney General Rokita seeks to depose Indy Star reporter in Bernard case
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 11, 2023 The request Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office made in late April to delay the case against Caitlin Bernard pending before the Indiana Medical Licensing Board came after an apparent change in the state’s lead cou “...”
UPDATE: Attorney General’s office authored amendment that seeks to end lawsuit against Rokita
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen May 5, 2023 A 56-word provision authored by the Indiana Attorney General’s office and dropped late into the biennial budget bill appears to be an attempt to short circuit a lawsuit aimed at forcing Attorney General Todd Rokita to turn ove “...”
UPDATE: Rokita adds GOP powerhouse Bopp as outside counsel in battle over Inspector General report — but thanks to lawmakers, he might have won already.
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen April 28, 2023 Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has hired James Bopp, a nationally recognized attorney championing Republican causes, to represent him in the fight to keep confidential an Indiana Inspector General’s report about his p “...”
County court battle between Rokita and physicians ends with judge’s order
The Marion County Circuit Court has granted Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request to end his effort to change another judge’s finding that as the state’s top lawyer, he violated confidentiality by making repeated public statements about his office’s investigation “...”
Rokita ends court fight against finding that he violated confidentiality
April 21, 2023 After hiring outside counsel and presenting oral arguments to the judge, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is withdrawing his motion to remove a trial court’s finding that he violated state confidentiality laws when he publicized his office’s investigation i “...”
Rokita’s court fight against finding that he violated confidentiality takes another twist in Marion County hearing
For the first time since the Marion County Superior Court issued an order in December 2022 which found, in part, that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita violated a state confidentiality law, attorneys representing the state’s top lawyer and Indianapolis OB/GYN Caitlin Bernard “...”
Rokita’s fight to overturn judge’s finding moves to yet another court, is set for hearing April 11
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s fight to overturn a trial court’s finding that he violated a state confidentiality law has been moved to another court – its third since the original complaint was filed in November 2022 – and set for a hearing April 11. Marion Count “...”
MOONLIGHTING: ROKITA FIGHTS COURT ORDER TO RELEASE REPORT ON HIS PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT — EVEN THOUGH IT ALLOWS HIM TO REDACT AS MUCH AS HE WANTS.
The following report was written for The Indiana Citizen by veteran Indiana legal journalist Marilyn Odendahl. March 9, 2023 One day after being sworn in as Attorney General in January 2021, Todd Rokita asked a state watchdog agency, the Office of the Inspector General, for an o “...”
Rokita questions ‘sterilizations’ at gender-affirming clinics
Above: Screenshot of Rokita video By Whitney Downard Indiana Capital Chronicle March 8, 2023 Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on Tuesday inserted himself into the debate over gender-affirming care for minors – though recent testimony documented that surgeries on children d “...”