3 lawyers facing suspensions
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Three Hoosier lawyers are facing disciplinary sanctions after the Indiana Supreme Court handed down orders suspending their law licenses.
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Three Hoosier lawyers are facing disciplinary sanctions after the Indiana Supreme Court handed down orders suspending their law licenses.
In years past, the Indiana Legislature has been able to shroud the redistricting process with budget debates and other pending issues. But due to a pandemic-related delay in the census data needed to redraw the maps this year, lawmakers are expected to return to the Statehouse in September to deal exclusively with redistricting. Several voter groups are promising to closely monitor the process, even though most of the wheeling and dealing could still occur behind closed doors amid sporadic public hearings.
A federal fraud trial involving several former officers and employees of a now-defunct financial services firm in Westfield began on Monday.
Lesley Crane is stepping down as commissioner of the Indiana Department of Administration to join the private sector.
A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection opened its first hearing Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke into the building — an effort to put a human face on the violence of the day.
Indiana Court of Appeals
William Hoppe, as Father and Natural Guardian of Madison Hoppe, a Minor, and Shellie and Christopher Knoll v. Safeco Insurance Company of Indiana
21A-PL-73
Civil plenary. Affirms the Hamilton Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Safeco Insurance Company of Indiana in Safeco’s declaratory judgment action to determine whether it had a duty to indemnify their insureds, Shellie and Christopher Knoll, in a lawsuit filed by William Hoppe, as father and natural guardian of Madison Hoppe, a minor. Finds coverage under the liability section of the homeowner’s insurance policy issued by Safeco to the Knolls does not apply to bodily injury arising from the use of the golf cart. Thus, there’s no coverage under the policy for any entrustment, supervision, act, decision or omission concerning the golf cart. Also finds the trial court properly granted summary judgment to Safeco.
Two families jointly appealing a ruling that favored an insurance company after one of their children was injured in a golf cart accident did not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that there was a mistake in the trial court’s decision.
Joint custody was not a good idea for a splitting Carmel family, the Indiana Court of Appeals concluded after finding that the arrangement would have been detrimental to the parties’ young child.
The Indiana Public Defender Commission is calling for proposals of projects that will help improve the assistance offered to children and families involved in the child welfare system and prevent involvement altogether.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to order a trial court to stop proceedings in the governor’s lawsuit challenging a new law that allows Indiana legislators to call themselves into a special legislative session.
Eight new individuals have been nominated by President Joe Biden for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including attorneys for Indiana’s Northern and Southern districts.
A Fort Wayne man has pleaded guilty to killing a woman who witnesses said he shot once in a driveway before standing over her and firing several more times.
More than 100 Indiana businesses are urging Congress to pass legislation stalled in the Senate that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ people, saying in a letter that “discrimination is bad for business.”
The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Kashawn Morrow
20-2259
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Judge Richard L. Young.
Criminal. Affirms Kashawn Morrow’s convictions on counts of Hobbs Act robbery and firearms offenses in relation to four robberies across Indiana and Ohio. Vacates the restitution award against Morrow. Finds Morrow failed to satisfy the plain error requirements to successfully challenge count 8. Also finds Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence. Finally, finds it was error for the district court to order restitution for property stolen during the Troy, Ohio robbery. Remands for a determination of the appropriate restitution award for the Ohio robbery.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed an appeal in the lawsuit brought by former Roncalli High School counselor Lynn Starkey, saying the Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ turn to the appellate court was premature.
A man convicted in a series of armed robberies failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that he and his co-conspirators used a fake gun that should undermine his firearms convictions. But the appellate court did vacate part of the man’s restitution order.
A bail bondsman has been freed from an order to pay up on a $20,000 bond he posted several years ago after the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed upon finding the bond had expired and was no longer forfeitable.
Citizens will have to turn off and secure their electronic devices before entering any of the federal courthouses in the Southern District of Indiana starting Aug. 2, Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has announced.
The United States federal judiciary is requesting more than $1.5 billion to support courthouse security, information technology and courthouse construction projects, including funding to upgrade the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana’s Fort Wayne location.