Commercial court, touted as economic engine, OK’d for Tippecanoe County
Chief Justice Loretta Rush announces Tippecanoe Co. will be 11th in Indiana with a commercial court, starting 2025. A Q&A with the judge taking on what Rush called an ‘engine of economic development.'
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CHIEF JUSTICE LORETTA RUSH ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL COURT FOR TIPPECANOE COUNTY
In May, Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush brought colleagues to the Lafayette Country Club to meeting with the local Bar Association, trying to drum up support for making Tippecanoe County the 11th commercial court in the state since Indiana founded its first one in 2016.
Rush’s pitch to a hometown legal crowd – she was elected three times as Tippecanoe County Superior Court 3, the county’s juvenile court, before her Supreme Court appointment in 2012 – was that commercial courts are engines of economic development in a state hungry for that sort of thing.
By offering efficiency and increased familiarity when settling business disputes, Rush had said, a commercial court would be something Tippecanoe County and Purdue could sell when courting businesses large and small. The idea is to have company lawyers and a judge get together and try to figure out what is the most efficient way to get a situation to a resolution.
The rub was persuading a sitting judge to take on that role and caseload.
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