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Lake County Council prevails in legal battle with commissioners over control of purchasing, data processing


CROWN POINT — 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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CNN At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan March 31, 2015 15:17:00

The law through statute and court decisions and 30 jurisdictions, in the wake of last year s supreme court case, the hobby lobby case, i just thought it was an appropriate addition to indiana statutes. it moved through the legislative process with good debate, but not a considerable amount of controversy. and so candidly when this erupted last week, even though i had made my position clear weeks agatha i would sign the be bill without much discussion, i was taken aback. and i have to tell you that the gross mischaracterizations about this bill early on and some of the reckless reporting by some in the media about what this bill was all about was deeply disappointing to me and to millions of hoosiers. ....

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