BIELSKI v. ZORN

No. 49T10-9309-TA-00070.

627 N.E.2d 880 (1994)

David BIELSKI, Kenneth Gembala, and Douglas Patterson, Individually and As Town Councilmen of the Town of St. John, Lake County, Indiana, a Municipal Corporation, for and On Behalf of the Taxpayers and Owners of Real Estate within the Corporate Limits of the Town of St. John, and the Town of St. John, Lake County, Indiana, a Municipal Corporation, Petitioners, v. Kurt ZORN, Gordon McIntyre, and Wanda Watts, in Their Official Capacities As Commissioners of the Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners, Respondents.

Tax Court of Indiana.

January 20, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Waples, Indiana Civ. Liberties Union, Indianapolis, Michael L. Muenich, Hand Muenich Wilk & Reid, Highland, Thomas M. Atherton, Dutton Overman Goldstein & Pinkus, and Peter H. Donahoe, Locke Reynolds Boyd & Weisell, Indianapolis, for petitioners.

Pamela F. Carter, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Marilyn S. Meighen, Ted J. Holaday, Joel Schiff, and Kathryn Symmes Hall, Deputy Attys. Gen., Indianapolis, for respondents.


FISHER, Judge.

This appeal alleges Indiana's system of real property taxation violates the provisions of Article 10, § 1 and Article 1, § 23 of the Indiana Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The individual petitioners are David Bielski, Kenneth Gembala, and Douglas Patterson, each of whom owns property in the Town of St. John, St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana. These three petitioners are the members of the...

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