STATE EX REL. CINCINNATI POST v. CITY OF CINCINNATI

No. 95-1803.

76 Ohio St.3d 540 (1996)

THE STATE EX REL. CINCINNATI POST v. CITY OF CINCINNATI.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 4, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker & Hostetler, David L. Marburger, Hilary W. Rule, Jeffrey T. Williams and Bruce W. Sanford, for relator.

Fay D. Dupuis, City Solicitor, and Karl P. Kadon III, Deputy City Solicitor, for respondent.


PFEIFER, J.

We hold that the Cincinnati City Council's back-to-back meetings, which, taken together, were attended by a majority of council members, violated the provisions of R.C. 121.22, that the dictates of R.C. 121.22 are applicable to Cincinnati City Council, and that the Cincinnati Post is entitled to its requested relief.

Ohio's "Sunshine Law," R.C. 121.22, requires that public officials, when meeting to consider official business, conduct those meetings...

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