Seventh Circuit Greenlights Indiana Toll Road Fee Increase for Big Rigs
(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...
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