How Did it Go?

How did it go?

It is difficult to say.

Can we take the questions of the Justices to suggest their current thinking?

If so, then the chance that they will overturn the incorporation legislation is small.

On the other hand, they may determine that the Town was improperly formed under existing law.  The City has a long list of complaints about the paper work filed to form the Town, some of which sounds trivial to me, but others are more substantive.

Some parcels (perhaps vacant lots but sometimes the homes of individual citizens) were removed from the Town by the Circuit Court because they had already been annexed into the City or were not contiguous.    Out of the approximately 9000 in the Town less than 200 were removed by the Circuit Court.

Generally, the Supreme Court is supposed to be reviewing issues of law, and to some degree, whether or not the Town was properly formed are matters of fact.   Were the legal principles the Circuit Court used in finding fact appropriate.

I think so.   But we will soon find out if the Supreme Court agrees.

What will the Supreme Court do?    They might close the Town down.

If the Supreme Court decides against the Town, we will have to incorporate a fourth time using the current law.