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COURT DENIES SK HYNIX, CITY BID TO END LAWSUITS AIMED AT STOPPING $4B PROJECT IN WEST LAFAYETTE
An attempt by SK hynix and the city of West Lafayette to call “game over” before a trial started for a pair of lawsuits from West Lafayette residents fighting the placement of the South Korean company’s $4 billion semiconductor facility was rejected last week.
In an Oct. 22 ruling, Tippecanoe Circuit Judge Sean Persin denied a motion for summary judgment filed in late 2025 by attorneys for SK hynix, the city and Purdue Research Foundation, confirming a trial date.
Persin did not go into detail in last week’s order about the factors for his decision.
But in court filings and during a three-hour hearing Sept. 29, attorneys for the company and the city had argued that the West Lafayette City Council got it right when it voted 6-3 in May 2025 to rezone 121 acres north of Kalberer Road from single-family residential to heavy industrial uses.
The city council’s actions, they’d argued, met a rational basis test needed to justify the vote on a rezoning that cleared the way for SK hynix to build a facility expected to assemble semiconductor chips into high-bandwidth memory for the artificial intelligence market.
They’d argued that the court didn’t need to step into what amounted to a legislative decision, other than to grant summary judgment against the effort to stop construction and return the property to R1/single family zoning, just because the plaintiffs didn’t like the outcome.
Now, both sides are due in court Monday afternoon for a final pretrial hearing ahead of a bench trial starting Dec. 1. The trial is scheduled to go three days.
