Indicted Wabash Township trustee appears for initial hearing
Teising has also been ordered for fingerprinting and processing at the Tippecanoe County Sheriff s Office.
Posted: May 28, 2021 9:02 AM
Updated: May 28, 2021 11:05 AM
Posted By: Joseph Paul
TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) The Wabash Township trustee accused of theft appeared Friday morning for an initial hearing.
As News 18 previously reported, Jennifer Teising was indicted by a grand jury May 12 on 20 counts of theft. Prosecutors allege Teising wasn t living in the township from June 2020 to February 2021 but collected a township paycheck every two weeks, amounting to nearly two dozen cases of theft.
During the hearing, Teising s attorney, Indianapolis-based Karen Celestino-Horseman, asked to waive the reading of Teising s charges and advisement of rights.
In her first court appearance since being indicted for twenty counts of theft by a grand jury earlier this month, Wabash Township Trustee Jennifer Teising
High court births state precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court this week did a profound amount of good by essentially doing nothing.
Justices on Monday declined to take up a case involving whether same-sex couples in Indiana have the right to both be listed as parents on the birth certificates of their children. That left in place a lower court ruling that found limiting who can be called a parent in the state is unconstitutional.
“It s a major victory that is going to keep the same-sex families together, and the children born to these marriages will have two parents to love and protect them,” Karen Celestino-Horseman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, told the Indianapolis Star.
SCOTUS passes on Indiana gay parenting case
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Jazz ShawPosted at 9:39 am on December 15, 2020
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It’s starting to seem as if the Supreme Court is making more news by declining to take cases than issuing rulings on them. The latest example comes to us courtesy of a case out of Indiana and a ruling from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Indiana has a law on the books limiting who can or cannot be recorded as the parent of a child, specifically when it comes to listing them on the baby’s birth certificate. Under that law, only the biological father can be listed as the other parent aside from the mother who gave birth. That law was challenged by a married lesbian couple who sought to have the mother’s wife listed as the second parent. The 7th Circuit sided with the plaintiffs and in an unsigned statement, the Supreme Court chose not to consider overturning their ruling. (NBC News)
Conservative SCOTUS Announces Another Pro-LGBTQ+ Decision
Indiana officials were seeking to undermine marriage equality, but the justices refused to hear the case.
Pictured: Jackie and Lisa Phillips-Stackman, one of the couples in the Indiana case, with their daughter
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case from Indiana that could have undermined marriage equality, as it sought to reverse a lower court’s ruling that both same-sex parents have to be listed on a child’s birth certificate.
The court Monday included the case,
Box v. Henderson, on a list of those it had turned down. It did so without comment, as is usually the practice. The justices’ vote was unanimous, despite the presence of three Trump appointees that gave the court a 6-3 conservative majority, the