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Scott Himsel
Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Law

Baker & Daniels' business litigation lawyers have experience addressing significant issues under both federal and state constitutions. Our experience and services include:
  • Representing the City of Indianapolis in a challenge to its ordinance regulating violent video games.
  • Representing churches when First Amendment concerns are raised in litigation over church dissolutions or governance disputes.
  • Advising churches and other religious organizations on methods to maximize religious freedom in drafting governance documents.
  • Advising an entity bidding to lease a state highway on state constitutional issues, including tax exemptions and special law concerns.
  • Representing property taxpayers alleging that their assessments violate the state constitutional uniformity requirement.

Baker & Daniels lawyers frequently write and teach about constitutional issues. These engagements include teaching undergraduate constitutional law classes at Wabash College, a state constitutional law class at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, continuing legal education programs on constitutional issues for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Foundation and Indiana Municipal Lawyers Association, and writing about state constitutional developments for the Indiana Law Review.