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The world is changing faster than ever post COVID-19. A changing world has always brought opportunity for lawyers. With change, comes a flurry of new legal issues to be argued, negotiated and decided.
Indiana Southern District U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division chief Cindy Cho is committed to the Department of Justice’s mission to do justice through the law — so much so that her desire to become a federal prosecutor dates back as far as her memory serves.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Jason Gay v. Monroe County Community School Corporation (mem. dec.)
21A-PL-185
Civil plenary. Affirms the Monroe Circuit Court’s grant of summary judgment to the Monroe County Community School Corporation over its removal of trees near Jason Gay’s property. Finds the designated evidence indicates that no genuine issue of material fact existed and that MCCSC is entitled to judgment as a matter of law regarding its boundary dispute with Gay. Also finds the trial court properly entered summary judgment for MCCSC.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has announced amendments to its local rules concerning the format of filed documents and email filings.
A Mishawaka lawyer named the newest judge to the St. Joseph Superior Court will begin his duties next month, with robing ceremonies to follow for several new judges and magistrate judges.
In a case that even the district court acknowledged tested the limits of federal interference in state court matters, the Indiana Department of Child Services and Gov. Eric Holcomb are asking the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the denial of their motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by children in the foster care system.
Church Church Hittle and Antrim has announced that Alexander Pinegar has become managing partner of the Hamilton County law firm. He succeeds David Day, who will continue to work with clients as a senior partner at the firm.
A federal judge in Indianapolis has tossed out Community Health Network’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department that alleges the hospital system engaged in a fraudulent scheme to keep patient referrals in its network.
A truck driver whose semitrailer crashed into a car along an eastern Indiana highway construction zone last year, killing four young siblings, has filed notice that he intends to plead guilty in the case.
Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting a police officer while being arrested, she was placed on probation yet never received notice that she’d finished the term and was on safe ground legally. Now 82 and slowed by age, Colvin is asking a judge to end the matter once and for all.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol “deferred” its requests for several dozen pages of records from former President Donald Trump’s administration at the White House’s urging, but President Joe Biden again rejected the former president’s invocation of executive privilege on hundreds of additional pages.
The Senate’s willingness to confirm a president’s nominees took a downward turn during Donald Trump’s first year in office. And it has only gotten worse for President Joe Biden.
A Carmel lawyer who recently pleaded guilty to multiple drunken driving offenses has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana and ordered to monitoring under the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program.
An Indianapolis lawyer serving as general counsel to the Indy Chamber has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana following a second drunken driving conviction.
Tenley Drescher-Rhoades has returned to Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, stepping down as general counsel of the Indianapolis Airport Authority to rejoin the firm as counsel in the corporate practice group.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Jason C. Baldauf v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
21A-CR-699
Criminal. Affirms Jason C. Baldauf’s conviction of Level 6 felony intimidation. Finds the state presented sufficient evidence to support Baldauf’s conviction.
A Florida lawyer who was indicted for bilking the federal government of more than $32 million in tax revenue through an Indiana fraud scheme has surrendered his license to practice law in the Hoosier State.
Indiana’s governor is asking the state’s high court to review a judge’s ruling that upheld a new law giving legislators more power to intervene during public health emergencies.
Twitter suspended an Indiana congressman’s official account after removing a post about a transgender Biden administration official over a violation of the social media company’s rules.
A northern Indiana woman has been charged with allegedly setting a May house fire that killed a man and an 8-year-old boy.