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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the statutory language in the relevant statutes” given that, in large part, the 1980 law at the center of the case was repealed.
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The Lake County commissioners asked a judge to postpone implementation of his April 16 order transferring control of the county's purchasing and data processing departments to the county council.
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...
âIâll see you in heaven.â It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization. Noe, 66, ...