Opinions May 3, 2011

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Donald Leach
10-1786
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division, Judge Robert L. Miller Jr.
Criminal. Affirms denial of Leach’s motion to dismiss his indictment for knowingly failing to register as a sex offender after traveling in interstate commerce in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. There is no ex post facto violation of the United States Constitution.

Jerry Adkins, et al. v. Kenneth Will, et al.
10-2237
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division, Chief Judge Philip P. Simon.
Civil. Reverses dismissal of plaintiffs’ citizen suit under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and remands to allow them to pursue their citizen suit except for certain claims that were brought up in an Indiana Department of Environmental Management suit filed before the plaintiffs suit.  The plaintiffs could continue to pursue their citizen suit in federal court when the state agency filed a later enforcement action in state court. The plaintiffs could file their federal citizen suit after the state agency had filed a much narrower enforcement action against the same alleged violators, and after the alleged violators persuaded the court not to allow the plaintiffs to intervene to broaden the state court enforcement action to assert the claims they then presented to the federal court. Colorado River and Burford abstention doctrines do not justify dismissal or stay of this citizen suit. Judge Kenneth Ripple concurs in part and dissents in part.

The Indiana Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court were closed today due to the primary elections.
 

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