U.S. Supreme Court Pushes Deadline On Lake Michigan Shore Case

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From the Associated Press — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t decide until next year whether to consider arguments from residents of Chief Justice John Roberts’ Indiana hometown over ownership of the Lake Michigan community’s shoreline. The court is giving the state attorney general’s office an extra two months for a response to the request from Don and Bobbie Gunderson of Long Beach for the Supreme Court review. The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports the response is now due January 11. The couple wants to appeal an Indiana Supreme Court decision setting the ordinary high water mark as the boundary between state-owned land under Lake Michigan and private property. The Gundersons maintain their lakefront property extends to the water’s edge. Roberts lived as a child in Long Beach from the 1960s until leaving for Harvard in 1973.