Indiana Department of Environmental Management v. Chemical Waste Management, Inc.

ON DIRECT APPEAL

DeBRULER, Justice.

This case comes to us on direct appeal from the trial court judgment finding Indiana Code 18-7-10.2, the "Good Character" law ("Statute"), unconstitutional. Ind.Appellate Rule 4(A)(8). Appellants Indiana Department of Environmental Management ("IDEM") and Kathy Prosser, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management ("Commissioner"), raise the following issues:

1) whether the case is sufficiently developed to permit judicial review, i.6., "ripe";

2) whether the Statute unconstitutionally distinguishes between commercial and noncommercial…