Tax sale CLE coming to Indy next month
| IL Staff
Lawyers can get more than seven hours of continuing legal education credit during an Indiana tax sale seminar in Indianapolis next month.
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Judge letting Indiana’s governor sue to block emergency law
Attorneys for Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita faced off last month during oral arguments about whether the governor could hire his own legal counsel to represent him in a lawsuit he filed against the state’s legislative body. A Marion County Superior Court judge, in an order posted Saturday, ruled that he could.
Leadership in Law nominations deadline extended 2 weeks
| IL Staff
There’s still time to submit nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s 2021 Leadership in Law Awards. The nominations deadline has been extended to July 16.
Man takes guilty plea in Bristol gas station shooting
An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a man he shot at four times outside a gas station.
Indiana governor making trade trip to Persian Gulf country
Indiana’s governor is traveling to the Persian Gulf country of Qatar for what the state economic development office says is an effort to boost business relationships with the region.
Supreme Court rules against inmate in death penalty case
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence.
US Supreme Court backs Minnesota Amish in septic tank fight
The U.S. Supreme Court sided Friday with members of an Amish group in Minnesota who are fighting efforts by authorities to compel them to install septic systems, sending their appeal back to a state court for reconsideration in light of the high court’s recent ruling in a religious freedom case.
Hunt for Capitol attackers still on 6 months after Jan. 6
The first waves of arrests in the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol focused on the easy targets. But six months after the insurrection, the Justice Department is still hunting for scores of rioters.
Building collapse lawsuits seek to get answers, assign blame
Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it happened and who is to blame is already underway in Florida’s legal system.
‘Private right of action’ at heart of unemployment dispute
Before the Indiana Court of Appeals, the governor and a group of unemployed Hoosiers are sparing over whether a state statute is intended to cover the extra unemployment payment provided by Congress to buoy those who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic.
Justices turn away florist who refused same-sex wedding job
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke state anti-discrimination laws.
US Supreme Court to hear Maine religious school tuition case
The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday that it will hear a case brought by families from Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.
Biden backs changes in military sexual assault prosecution
President Joe Biden on Friday put his stamp of approval on a long-debated change to the military justice system that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders.
Ex-officer pleads guilty to manslaughter, family objects
The mother of a Black man fatally shot by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a lectern Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she says was struck in secret without her knowledge.
Marion County Prosecutor, Boys & Girls Club team up to keep kids out of juvie
| IL Staff
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday announced a new program that hopes to keep kids out of the criminal justice system by giving them a second chance through a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis.
New bankruptcy judge appointed to Indiana Northern District
| IL Staff
St. Joseph Superior Court Magistrate Judge Paul E. Singleton has been appointed to a 14-year term as bankruptcy judge in the Indiana Northern District based in South Bend. Singleton will take office July 29, succeeding bankruptcy Judge Harry C. Dees, Jr.
Evansville woman gets probation for absentee ballot charge
An Evansville Democratic Party activist has been sentenced to probation for sending illegally pre-marked mailings to voters ahead of the 2020 primary elections.
Federal executions halted; Garland orders protocols reviewed
The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.
Unusually agreeable justices end term with conservative wins
An unusually agreeable Supreme Court term ended with conservative-driven decisions on voting rights and charitable-donor disclosures that offered a glimpse of what the coming years of the right’s dominance could look like for the nation’s highest court.
COA tightens deadline in enhanced unemployment benefits dispute
The Indiana Court of Appeals is allowing the state to proceed with its attempt to overturn a Marion Superior Court ruling reinstating enhanced unemployment benefits and is moving to expedite when it will issue a ruling in the matter.