CUYAHOGA CTY. BD. OF COMMRS. v. STATE

No. 84305.

162 Ohio App.3d 6 (2005)

2005-Ohio-2821

CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Appellee, v. The STATE of Ohio et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Decided June 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Geoffrey S. Mearns, and Megan P. Frient, for appellee.

Jim Petro, Attorney General, Douglas R. Cole, State Solicitor, Alan Schwepe, and Juliane E. Barone, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellants.

Peck, Schaffer & Williams, and Thomas A. Luebbers, for amicus curiae, County Commissioners Association of Ohio.


ROCCO, Judge.

{¶ 1} A single bureaucrat with a briefcase can dispossess this state's most needy citizens more effectively than a hundred men with masks and guns. This paraphrase of the words of novelist Mario Puzo precisely summarizes the facts of this case.

{¶ 2} Defendants-appellants, the state of Ohio, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ("ODJFS"), the governor, and the director of ODJFS (collectively, "the...

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