STATE EX REL. GENERAL v. BRUNNER

No. 2007-0209.

114 Ohio St.3d 386 (2007)

2007-Ohio-3780

THE STATE EX REL. OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY ET AL. v. BRUNNER, SECY. OF STATE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Suzanne K. Richards, C. William O'Neill, and Richard D. Schuster, for relators.

Marc Dann, Attorney General, and Brian J. Laliberte, Michael W. Deemer, Frank M. Strigari, Pearl Chin, and Christopher R. Geidner, Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent.

Bricker & Eckler, L.L.P., Kurtis A. Tunnell, Anne Marie Sferra, and Maria J. Armstrong, urging granting of the writ for amici curiae Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice, Ohio Manufacturers' Association, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio, Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, Ohio Business Roundtable, Ohio Chemistry Technology Council, and Ohio Automobile Dealers Association.

Marc Dann, Attorney General, and Kent Markus, Special Assistant Attorney General, urging denial of the writ for amicus curiae Governor Ted Strickland.

Daniel T. Kobil, Professor of Law, Capital University Law School, urging denial of the writ for amici curiae eighteen Ohio professors of constitutional law.

Benson A. Wolman, Susan B. Gellman, and Rachel K. Robinson, urging denial of the writ for amici curiae Equal Justice Foundation, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, AARP, National Association of Consumer Advocates, Ohio State Legal Services Association, Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Legal Aid Society of Columbus, Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Toledo Fair Housing Center, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Cleveland Tenants Organization, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Legal Aid of Western Ohio, and the Cuyahoga County Foreclosure Prevention Program.

Willis & Willis Co., L.P.A., and Todd L. Willis; McDowall Co., L.P.A., and Laura K. McDowall, urging denial of the writ for amicus curiae National Association of Consumer Advocates.


CUPP, J.

{¶ 1} This is an original action filed by relators, the Ohio General Assembly, Ohio Senate President Bill Harris, and Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Jon Husted, to compel respondent, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, to treat 2006 Am.Sub.S.B. No. 117 as a duly enacted law and to fulfill all of her duties as set forth...

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