Supreme Court may consolidate Lake right-to-work cases
INDIANAPOLIS | Attorney General Greg Zoeller's appeals of two Lake County judicial rulings finding the state's right-to-work law unconstitutional appear likely to be consolidated before the cases are heard by the Indiana Supreme Court.
The Republican filed paperwork with the high court Monday concurring with a request by the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150, that its case — set for oral argument Sept. 4 — be combined with the recent United Steelworkers decision.
"The state agrees that these two appeals present the same constitutional issue and that principles of judicial economy therefore favor consolidation," Zoeller said.
However, Zoeller insisted his support for consolidation depends on the Supreme Court postponing the effects of Lake Circuit Judge George Paras' July 17 order, in the United Steelworkers case, declaring the labor law "null and void in its entirety" and barring the state from enforcing it.
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