article thumbnail

Indiana Court of Appeals: state may withdraw from federal unemployment program

JURIST

Indiana Court of Appeals sided with Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on Tuesday allowing him to withdraw the state from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act benefits program. The trial court ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor and ordered the state to continue its participation in the program.

Court 104
article thumbnail

Federal appeals court upholds Indiana University COVID-19 vaccine mandate

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday denied a motion for an injunction pending appeal upholding the lower court’s own denial of a motion for preliminary injunction against Indiana University’s mandate that all students get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus in the fall.

Court 118
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Justices allow execution of Alfred Bourgeois to proceed

SCOTUSBlog

Through his counsel, Bourgeois told the justices that he met the current psychological standards for intellectual disability, which became the required legal standard after he was sentenced. He asked the justices to delay his execution so they could consider whether he was legally fit to be punishable by death. A panel of the U.S.

article thumbnail

The Little-Known Firm Behind Opposition to Changing Police Use-of-Force Rules

The Crime Report

police departments is behind an “aggressive” effort to prevent changes in use-of-force standards, according to a forthcoming paper in the Indiana Law Journal. By rejecting policies like de-escalation and rules prohibiting chokeholds?strategies A little-known private consulting firm that drafts policies for thousands of U.S.

Drafting 119
article thumbnail

Supreme Court declines to take up challenge to same-sex parents on birth certificate

JURIST

The US Supreme Court refused to hear a case Monday that sought to reverse a lower court ruling allowing same-sex couples to be listed as birth parents on a child’s birth certificate. Hendersen , was appealed from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The case, Box v.

Court 223
article thumbnail

The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

The court ordered additional briefings, but the lawyer then missed multiple deadlines, claiming earlier orders were lost among numerous notifications on his mobile phone. In a typical year, most courts maintain a schedule for submission of new rules and changes to existing rules. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules.

article thumbnail

The first relists of October Term 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Currently, six states provide for criminal juries of six or eight jurors: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah.