Vanderburgh Superior Court In Response To The Recent Surge Of COVID-19 Effective 12/7/2020

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December 4th, 2020: 

The operations of the Vanderburgh Superior Court in response to the recent surge of COVID-19 effective 12/7/2020 is as follows: 

Family Court 

1. Beginning Monday – December 7th until Monday- March 1st, we are suspending the in-person 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. cattle calls in Family Court. the Judges’ staffs will work on contacting, resetting and re-calendaring the cases. New arrests will still be done daily by WebEx. 

2. The Monday 1 p.m. Family Court session for the Public Defender appointed cases will only be for the in-custody cases by WebEx. The non-custody public defender cases will ne to be reset to March 1st or later. 

3. The Judges’ and Magistrate contested hearing books will be located in Tara’s office. The attorneys can then contact her to schedule or re-schedule contested hearings. 

4. Protective Order cases that were set with their companion family case during the 8 am or 9:30 am cattle call are all extended and continued to the same later date as their companion case. 

5. Already scheduled evidentiary family hearings will be handled by the Judge assigned. The judge may choose to have the hearing in person, on WebEx/Zoom, or re-schedule and each Judges’ office will handle that. 

6. Emergency family hearings will be left to each judge’s discretion and whether the hearing is in person or by Zoom/WebEx. 

7. Summary hearings will continue to be held in-person each Friday. 

8. Magistrates will continue hearing evidentiary hearings during the afternoons when in family court. 

Civil Court 

1. Ex parte Protective Orders and Hearings on Permanent Protective Orders that are on a Judge’s personal calendar will continue as scheduled and each Judge’s staff shall handle the matter. 

2. There will be no civil jury trials from December 7th until March 1st . 

3. There will be no proceeding supplemental cases scheduled from December 7th until March 1st . Each Judge’s staff will reset, and reschedule their proceeding supplemental cases. 

4. Civil bench trials will be left to each assigned Judge on how to proceed. 

Small Claims 

1. There will be no change in the operations. 

Misdemeanor 

1. There will be no change in the operations. 

Criminal Court 

1. There will be no criminal jury trials commencing 12/7/2020 to 3/1/2020. 

2. All other criminal matters with the exception of pleas and sentencing hearings will be handled remotely. 

3. A more specific email regarding criminal cases will be forthcoming. 

THE BUILDING WILL REMAIN OPEN 

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