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Opinions Feb. 19, 2021

7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Teria L. Anderson
19-2361
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker.
Criminal. Vacates Teria Anderson’s conviction of distributing a controlled substance and her sentencing enhancement for serious bodily injury. Finds there is no evidence from which a rational trier of fact could conclude that Anderson aided and abetted the May 30, 2017, transaction between Frankie Ray and Ian Buchanan. Also finds the district court did not err in finding the two-level leadership enhancement applicable. Remands to the district court for resentencing on the conspiracy conviction without a serious-bodily-injury enhancement. 

US lets in asylum-seekers stuck in Mexico, ends Trump policy

| Associated Press

After waiting months and sometimes years in Mexico, people seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country starting Friday as they wait for courts to decide on their cases, unwinding one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration policies that President Joe Biden vowed to end.

3/19 – NAMI Indiana’s 18th annual Mental Health and Criminal Justice Summit (virtual)

Join us to learn about the latest initiatives regarding individuals with mental illness who come in contact with the Criminal Justice System. Workshop topics will include innovations in jail-based treatment, competency restoration, responding to veterans in crisis, the mental health consequences of synthetic drug use, the Assessment and Intervention Center, and a Lived Experience presentation. […]

3/30 – Immigration in 2021: Where We Are & A Look Ahead (virtual)

Speaker: Laura Pontius, immigration attorney, consultant and public speaker The immigration law and policy landscape shifted in major ways over the last few years under the Trump administration. Join Immigration Attorney Laura Pontius as we examine the changes that have been made as well as changes to expect in the years ahead under the Biden […]

3/12 – IRS Collections: The Collection Process and Collection Alternatives (virtual)

Speaker: Matthew Gaudin, attorney, Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic Tax season is here! Join the Clinic’s Director of Tax and Economic Justice to explore important tax legal themes. This virtual CLE will discuss how the IRS collects outstanding tax liabilities and the process it uses. It will also discuss the following collection alternatives: (1) Installments Agreements; […]

Holcomb appoints new judge to Vanderburgh Superior Court

| IL Staff

A longtime private practitioner in a small Evansville law firm was appointed as judge of the Vanderburgh Superior Court on Thursday. Gov. Eric Holcomb announced the appointment of the new jurist who will succeed Judge Richard G. D’Amour upon his retirement in April. 

Suit: Siblings claim DCS knew of adoptive parents’ abusive past

| Marilyn Odendahl

Three adults who claim they were abused as children have filed a lawsuit against their adoptive parents as well as the Indiana Department of Child Services and the department’s county director and caseworkers, claiming the state agency and its employees were the “proximate cause of the shocking abuse” that the plaintiffs suffered.

Opinions Feb. 18, 2021

Indiana Court of Appeals

Daniel Welbourne, et al. v. Betty Mays

20A-MI-01001

Miscellaneous. Remands for further proceedings an order of the Johnson Superior Court granting paternal grandmother Betty Mays overnight visitation rights. Finds that while there is some evidentiary support for grandparent visitation, there is an absence of particularized findings necessary to evaluate the propriety of the order. Remands for more particularized findings relative to the child and child’s relationship with Mays.

Lake County Bar: Judicial-selection bill an ‘abomination,’ ‘political power play’

| IL Staff

The Lake County Bar Association on Thursday issued the most damning rebuke to date of a bill in the Indiana General Assembly that would alter how judges in that county and St. Joseph County are selected. The northwest Indiana county’s bar called the bill “an abomination” and “a political power play by parties not even within Lake County to take even more power away from the people of Lake County in selecting their judges.”

Grandparent visitation order remanded in dispute with guardians

| Dave Stafford

A court order granting a Johnson County grandmother overnight visitation with her 4-year-old grandchild lacked the required statutory findings to support it, but the Indiana Court of Appeals in a first-of-its-kind ruling involving a child’s guardians found enough evidence to let the order stand while remanding for more conclusive findings.