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Controversies · The Three Tests, Applied in Print — and the Fights the Record Does Not Carry
The frame: the three tests, stated as this section's gate — DUG
ROW 601 · LEG 90 ITEM 1 · THE GATE, PRINTED NOVEMBER 2026
No controversies file stood in this build; this article states the discipline the leg runs under, so every later verdict can be checked against it. An episode prints in this section only if it passes all three tests. First…
The founding-era civic fight: none is documented — none here
ROW 602 · LEG 90 ITEM 2 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
The pattern asks for a founding-era fight whole — an election scandal carrying money, draft, or violence in one episode. Government shows a village still unincorporated as late as Howard's 1907 history, with the incorporation…
Segregation in the deeds: the deed-level test cannot be run from open sources — NAMED GAP, settler named, with the law's course DUG
ROW 603 · LEG 90 ITEM 4 · GAP NAMED NOVEMBER 2026
This row is documented, in the sister builds, from the deeds themselves — the restriction read in the plat or the deed, not inferred from who later lived where. That standard is the reason this row cannot close as dug or as…
The beloved-building fight: no theatre, hall, or courthouse fight is documented — none here
ROW 604 · LEG 90 ITEM 6 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
The pattern is a building a city bought, protected, and demolished — a fight with a purchase, a defence, and a loss. Each element fails here on banked evidence, and the failure is printed element by element. A theatre: Arts's…
The seat-of-government argument and the refused referendum: no counts stand in the Record — NAMED GAP, settler named
ROW 605 · LEG 90 ITEM 7 · GAP NAMED NOVEMBER 2026
This row demands numbers: an argument over where the town's government sits, and a referendum the voters refused, each with vote counts from the record. The seat half is thinner than the pattern supposes: the town hall sits at…
The money fights: no pay-to-play, housing-authority, or tapes case passes the gate — none here
ROW 606 · LEG 90 ITEM 8 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
The South Bend patterns are specific machines — a pay-to-play ordinance fought through veto and injunction, a housing-authority fraud carried to official findings, police-tapes litigation. Tested one by one against this town…
Textbook-fee and fee-as-tax suits: the doctrine is the county's and the state's; no Osceola or Penn-Harris-Madison suit stands — none here
ROW 607 · LEG 90 ITEM 9 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
Indiana's fee litigation is real, appellate, and twice decided — and neither case is this town's. In Chandler v. South Bend Community School Corporation, 312 N.E.2d 915 (Ind. Ct. App. 1974), a class challenge to textbook rental…
The close: names never fought, and fights the record does not carry — none here printed whole
ROW 608 · LEG 90 ITEM 10 · THE LEG'S CLOSE, NOVEMBER 2026
A controversies leg for a town of 2,590 closes honestly only by printing its negatives as findings, not as silence. Printed whole, they are these. No founding-era election scandal (row #602). No deed covenant asserted or denied …