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ITEM 9 · INDIANA'S TEXTBOOK LITIGATION IS REAL — ITS DEFENDANTS ARE OTHER CORPORATIONS
Indiana's textbook-fee fights are a genuine chapter of the state's school law — parents suing corporations over rental fees, the cases climbing to the state supreme court across the decades — and the test for this ground is jurisdictional: was the John Glenn School Corporation ever a defendant? In the court record as searched — the appellate reports and the case record reached from this seat — no textbook-fee, curricular-fee, or school-charge suit names the John Glenn School Corporation (or the Walkerton schools in their earlier forms) as a party. The state's textbook litigation exists at full size and is other corporations' story; it prints here at boundary size only, as the context that makes the local negative legible: this was a live, litigated question in Indiana for a century, and this town's school never stood in it. The item closes DUG as a tested negative, with its limit stated: unreported trial-court filings in the county's own dockets are beyond the searched record's reach, and the negative is stated against the appellate and published record, the strength at which such suits ordinarily surface.
Principal sources: the Indiana appellate and case record searched for the corporation as party, November 2026; the state's textbook-litigation course at boundary size.