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The panel overseeing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s professional misconduct case denied his effort to force the state’s disciplinary commission to turn over internal records and instead set the matter for a December hearing.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty sentenced Zai’Vohn Perry, 25, to 101 months in prison and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
More than 180 current and former employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency published a letter Monday warning that debilitating cuts to the agency charged with handling federal disaster response risks a catastrophe like the one seen after Hurricane Katrina.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases during the first week of September, including one involving a dispute over a $2.8 million workman’s compensation reimbursement request filed with the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau.
Indiana Court of Appeals
In the Matter of P.F., a Child in Need of Services, and K.F. (Mother) and B.B. (Father) v. Indiana Department of Child Services
25A-JC-10
Juvenile CHINS. Reverses the Ripley Circuit Court’s order granting a motion for the Indiana Department of Child Services order that it no longer had to use reasonable efforts to reunify child with parents pursuant to Indiana Code section 31-34-21-5.6(b)(7). Finds there was insufficient evidence to show that all the elements of the Multiple CHINS provision were proven and the trial court erred in finding that reasonable efforts were not required. Remands with instructions to provide parents K.F. and B.B. with reunification services. Additionally, because the change in the child’s permanency plan was partially reliant on the no reasonable efforts finding, remands for further proceedings on the permanency plan consistent with this opinion. Attorneys for appellants: Jennifer Joas, R. Patrick Magrath. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Evan Comer.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore Monday and faces possible efforts by the Trump administration to deport him immediately.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on a directive issued late last week by his defense secretary.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision and denied a Fort Wayne man’s appeal after he was convicted of threatening a federal officer.
U.S. District Judge Richard Young sentenced Casey Lee Smith, 48, to 17-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release for his crimes.
State corrections officials are backing away from earlier plans to close the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City once a new $1.2 billion facility opens in 2027, saying they now intend to keep the aging lockup operating for “some time” after the new prison site begins housing inmates.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Damon L. Taylor
24-1007
Criminal. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne Division. Chief Judge Holly Brady. Affirms Damon Taylor’s conviction on two counts of threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B). Finds the district court provided Taylor a fair trial at which his able counsel provided him with a vigorous defense, and Taylor’s counsel was able to marshal the admitted evidence in support of an argument that he did not subjectively appreciate the threatening nature of his statements, that he did not consciously disregard the possibility that the AUSA would take them as genuine threats to her safety, and that he did not intend to impede, intimidate, or interfere with the AUSA in the performance of her official duties. Attorneys for appellant: Michelle Kraus, Chad Pennington. Attorneys for appellee: David Hollar, Maureen Merin.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut nearly $800 million in National Institutes of Health grants for the study of diseases in minority, gay and transgender communities while legal battles over the funding play out in the lower courts.
The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States, a significant expansion of ongoing efforts to clamp down on alleged abuses in the legal immigration system.
Court papers in a voting technology company’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News point to Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro as leaders in spreading false stories about election fraud in the weeks after Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in 2020.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws.
Anthony Stout, 57, was convicted by a Marion Superior Court jury of five counts of promotion of human sexual trafficking, five counts of intimidation, two counts of failure of a bail agent to collect full premium, and one count of attempted promotion of human sexual trafficking.
Some attorneys think there could be a pivot towards more traditional antitrust enforcement practices on M&A deals and a little more breathing room for negotiations with regulatory agencies.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Martell Jevon Flippins v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-2210
Criminal. Affirms Martell Flippins’ conviction by jury trial in Lake Superior Court of murder and the finding that he used a firearm in the commission of the crime as a sentence enhancement, which resulted in an aggregate sentence of 70 years. Findsthat the search warrants for Fliippins’ iPhone and Facebook account were supported by probable cause and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the evidence discovered as a result of the search warrants. Attorney for appellant: Sean Mullins. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Steven Hosler.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt imposed nearly 190 years of imprisonment across all the defendants, who were accused of trafficking large amounts of fentanyl and meth from Arizona to the Indianapolis, Anderson and Muncie areas.
