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(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) 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...

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. Email to a Friend 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. H...