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CHICAGO (CN) The State of Indiana was free to permit the operator of its toll road to increase fees on heavy vehicles, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.
The unanimous three-judge panel issued a short 6-page ruling, finding that a toll road fee increase that specifically targeted heavy vehicles did not run afoul of commerce laws.
“The Constitution does not establish the federal judiciary as a regulatory commission, after the fashion of utility regulators that try to keep natural monopolies’ charges in line with consumers’ benefits,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, who authored the opinion. “Truckers who want to avoid the tolls can use the many free roads in Indiana (including two toll-free interstate highways that cross the middle and south of the state from east to west.)”
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Ralph K. Winter Jr., a top conservative judicial mind, dies at 85
By Clay Risen New York Times,Updated December 19, 2020, 5:53 p.m.
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Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. donning his judicial robe at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., on Jan. 5, 1982, after being sworn in as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.JOYCE DOPKEEN/NYT
Ralph K. Winter Jr., a conservative legal scholar whose work as a professor at Yale Law School and later as an appellate court judge changed the shape of campaign finance law and corporate governance, died on Dec. 8 in Guilford, Conn. He was 85.