In a title loan company’s suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 to enjoin, as a violation of the Commerce Clause, the application to plaintiff of Indiana’s version of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, district court’s entry of permanent injunction is affirmed as the fact that the contract is made and executed in Illinois is enough to show that the territorial-application provision violates the commerce clause.    

Read Midwest Title Loans, Inc. v. Mills, No. 09-2083

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division

Decided January 28, 2010

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Before: Posner,  and Flaum, Circuit Judges, DerYeghiayan

Opinion by Circuit Judge  Posner

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