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Moore v. Middletown
In 2012, in Clifton v. v. Blanchester, 2012-Ohio-780, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that a property owner outside the corporate limits of the village involved could not challenge the re-zoning of a contiguous business within the village limits, nor bring a regulatory-takings claim against the village.
The same day Clifton was…
Update: read what happened on remand in this case here.
On November 7, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Boice v. Ottawa Hills, 2013-Ohio-4769. It is hard to say exactly what the issue is in this case. And the case has no syllabus. While the case was accepted as…
Update: On November 7, 2013, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On March 12, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Willis Boice v. Village of Ottawa Hills, 2012-0413. The case was accepted on regulatory takings issues, but you couldn’t much…
Wow! No wonder this one took so long. On August 30, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Moore v. Middleton, 2012-Ohio-3897. It’s a biggie, so expect a long post. As I’ve written previously on the blog, this case was argued the same day as Clifton v. Blanchester,…
On March 1, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio decided Clifton v. v. Blanchester. 2012-Ohio-780, one of two cases it heard on the same day about standing in a takings case. The issue in Clifton is whether a property owner whose property is outside the limits of a municipality (in this case a village)…
Jim McCarthy, a lawyer with Katz Teller Brant & Hild, litigates frequently in the area of eminent domain. I have worked with him as an appellate consultant. His post follows on Legally Speaking’s preview of Clifton v. Village of Blanchester and Moore et al. v. City of Middletown, which will be argued in the…
Update: On August 30, 2012, the Court handed down a merit decision in Moore v. Middletown. Read the analysis here.
Update: The merit decision in Clifton v. Village of Blanchester was handed down March 1, 2012 . Read the analysis of the decision here.
On September 6, the Ohio Supreme Court is set to hear…
