JURIST
JANUARY 12, 2021
A federal judge in Indiana on Monday stayed federal death row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution. Judge James Halan of the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, granted the stay in order to allow the court to conduct a hearing to determine Montgomery’s competence to be executed.
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 13, 2021
Here’s the Friday morning read: What the Supreme Court Decision Means for NY’s Eviction Moratorium (David Brand, City Limits). Supreme Court won’t block Indiana University vaccine mandate as Justice Barrett rejects student plea (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post). Making Sense of Chrysafis v.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
Last week US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied a similar petition from a group of Indiana University students who were protesting a similar requirement. Though her denial was through an emergency application—not a formal court decision—it likely signals that the court will not be convinced by challenges.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Shortly after the justices denied his appeal, Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. A federal court in Indiana put his execution on hold, finding that Bourgeois had made a “strong showing” of disability under contemporary standards. He was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m.
The Crime Report
JUNE 14, 2022
Examining the “severity and normality of state violence,” Thusi, an Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor, argues that such invasive searches violate the Fourth, Thirteenth, and Eighth Amendment rights of incarcerated girls. India Thusi in a Northwestern University Law Review article. It was humiliating,’” she said.
JURIST
AUGUST 4, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday upheld an Indiana law requiring medical providers to report complications “arising from” abortions to the state. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a complaint arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
NewmanFerraraLLP
OCTOBER 23, 2022
COUPLE'S DISCRIMINATION CASE REVIVED Tonca and Terence Watters -- a black couple from Indiana – asserted discrimination claims against their homeowners’ association (HOA) and some of its (current and former) officers because the latter had purportedly harassed the Watters on several occasions.
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