The filing lists five reasons for the “court’s order to be corrected” because it’s ruling is “contrary to law by not correctly applying the statutory language in the relevant statutes” given that, in large part, the 1980 law at the center of the case was repealed.
CROWN POINT â The seven-member Lake County Council is entitled to control the county s purchasing and data processing departments, not the three-member Board of County Commissioners that has managed both those departments for decades.
That s the ruling issued Friday by Lake Superior Judge John Sedia in the unprecedented lawsuit concerning the rightful separation of powers between the county s legislative branch (council) and its executive (commissioners).
In his 10-page order, Sedia said a 1981 Indiana law expressly assigns authority over purchasing and data processing to the Lake County Council, regardless of whether the council has chosen to exercise that authority in the years since.
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EDWARDSVILLE – Distant law firms clash in Madison County circuit court over a $30 million fee from litigation against seed maker Syngenta.
Crumley Roberts of North Carolina and Burke Harvey of Alabama each claimed $10 million on Feb. 26, in a complaint against Heninger Garrison of Alabama.
The three firms jointly represented some of many farmers who settled corn contamination claims against Syngenta for $1.5 billion.
Clients of the three firms sued Syngenta in Madison County, and Syngenta removed the complaints to U.S. district court in East St. Louis.
Most plaintiffs litigated through multi district proceedings before District Judge John Lungstrum of Kansas City, Kansas.