HERO v. LAKE COUNTY ELECTION BD.

No. 21-2793.

42 F.4th 768 (2022)

Joseph HERO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LAKE COUNTY ELECTION BOARD, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 2, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Falk , Stevie J. Pactor , Gavin M. Rose , Attorneys, American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Carly A. Brandenburg , Attorney, Eichhorn & Eichhorn, LLP, Hammond, IN, Michael E. Tolbert , Candace Williams , Attorneys, Tolbert & Tolbert LLC, Gary, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Rovner, Wood, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Joseph Hero has been a registered Republican for forty years. He supported Republican candidates, voted in Republican primaries for decades, and even ran for office as a Republican with occasional success. But local politics can be messy. Hero's town council decided to exercise its eminent-domain authority to seize property...

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