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Courts of Indiana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5178726 ↗
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Indiana is a state in the United States. The law Courts of Indiana include:

State courts of Indiana

Indiana Supreme Court

Indiana Court of Appeals (5 districts; previously Indiana Appellate Court)

Indiana Tax Court

Indiana Circuit Courts (91 circuits)

Indiana Superior Courts (177 divisions)

Indiana city and town courts

Federal courts located in Indiana

United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Former federal courts of Indiana

United States District Court for the District of Indiana (extinct, subdivided)

References

External links

National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites.

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This entry incorporates text from “Courts of Indiana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.