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Opinions Aug. 28, 2020

Indiana Court of Appeals
Jerry Wayne Smith v. State of Indiana
20A-CR-672
Criminal. Reverses Jerry Wayne Smith’s sentence for his conviction of Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement. Finds the 365-day sentence, with 185 days suspended to probation and 180 days served consecutive to the 277 days for a probation violation, is inappropriate. Remands to the Vermillion Circuit Court to impose a sentence of 365 days, with 20 days to serve and 345 days suspended to probation.

IU, Purdue fraternities quarantine; Notre Dame to resume in-person classes

| Associated Press

Members of eight Greek houses and students living in two other houses off the Bloomington campus of Indiana University have been ordered to quarantine because of positive COVID-19 tests. Meanwhile, fraternities at Purdue University also are dealing with outbreaks while the University of Notre Dame plans to resume in-person classes next week that were suspended due to a spike in cases.

Indiana ordered to reply by Monday to vote-by-mail appeal

| Dave Stafford

The state of Indiana has been ordered to respond by Monday to an appeal in a federal lawsuit seeking no-excuse absentee voting in the Nov. 3 general election, signaling the appellate court in Chicago may fast-track the challenge over mail-in voting just over two months ahead of the election.

Fifth federal execution of 2020 on again after late ruling

| Associated Press

The scheduled federal execution of a 10-year-old Kansas girl’s killer was back on track Friday after an appellate panel tossed a lower court’s ruling that would have required the government to get a drug prescription before it could use pentobarbital to kill the inmate at the federal prison in Terre Haute.

Trump lashes Biden, defies pandemic on White House stage

| Associated Press

President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the coronavirus kills 1,000 Americans each day, Trump defied his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to speak for more than an hour to a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd.

Opinions Aug. 27, 2020

Sarah Johnson v. Northeast School Corporation
19-2870
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Terre Haute Division. Judge James Sweeney, II.
Civil. Affirms the Southern District Court’s entry of summary judgment to North Central High School (Farmersburg) and Northeast School Corporation on Sarah Johnson’s claims that both entities inadequately responded to her alleged of sexual harassment, therefore violating Title IX, 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a). Finds Johnson has waived any arguments regarding the district court’s evidentiary rulings and that NESC was not deliberately indifferent to Johnson’s claims of sexual harassment.

Whiting mayor, wife enter pleas in $250K campaign fund fraud

| IL Staff

The mayor of Whiting has pleaded guilty to wire- and tax-fraud charges related to allegations he and his wife used more than $250,000 in campaign funds for gambling, paying credit card debt and other personal expenses, then filed false or misleading campaign reports or tax returns.

Indiana teachers hit by pellets in training drill sue police

| Associated Press

A group of teachers at a northern Indiana elementary school who were struck and injured last year by plastic pellets during an active shooter training drill are suing local police, accusing them of using excessive force during what the lawsuit calls the “Execution Style Drill.”