INDIANAPOLIS  — Attorneys for Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill have delayed action in a lawsuit seeking to remove him from office.  Hill’s law license was suspended for groping a state legislator and three other women.

The lawsuit argues Hill no longer meets state law’s requirement that the attorney general be “duly licensed to practice law in Indiana” and that Gov. Eric Holcomb should be allowed to appoint a replacement.

The attorney general’s office on Friday filed a motion for a new judge to replace the Marion County judge appointed to oversee the lawsuit.

Court action is not likely before Hill’s 30-day law license suspension ends Wednesday.

Hill has denied doing anything wrong at a party marking the end of the 2018 state legislative session where the groping occurred.

A unanimous Supreme Court decision last month said the state’s attorney disciplinary commission proved that Hill committed the criminal act of battery.