MENDENHALL v. CITY OF AKRON

No. 2006-2265.

117 Ohio St.3d 33 (2008)

2008-Ohio-270

MENDENHALL ET AL. v. CITY OF AKRON ET AL. SIPE ET AL. v. NESTOR TRAFFIC SYSTEMS, INC. ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 31, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Warner Mendenhall, Inc., Jacquenette S. Corgan, and Warner Mendenhall, for petitioner Kelly Mendenhall.

Antoni Dalayanis, for petitioners Janice Sipe, Joanne Lattur, and Wayne Burger.

Max Rothal, Akron Law Director, and Stephen A. Fallis and Michael J. Defibaugh, Assistant Law Directors, for respondent city of Akron.

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., Richard Gurbst, Heather Tonsing, and Donald W. Herbe, for respondent Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc.

Sutter, O'Connell & Farchione, Thomas H. Terry III, and David W. Skall, for amici curiae Michael McNamara and State Representative James Raussen.

Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A., Patrick J. Perotti, Jonathan. T. Stender, and Nicole T. Fiorelli, for amici curiae Dawn Rogaskie and State Representative James T. Raussen.

James A. Denney, for amicus curiae Dan Moadus.

Fritz Byers and Samuel Z. Kaplan, for amici curiae Ann Lewicki, Raymond G. Tobin, and Robert Nash Jr.

Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Gregory V. Mersol, and Kristin Ulrich Somich, for amicus curiae ACS State & Local Solutions, Inc.

Stephen L. Byron and John E. Gotherman, for amicus curiae the Ohio Municipal League.

Patrick J. Bonfield, Dayton Law Director, and John C. Mtisto, Assistant Law Director, for amicus curiae city of Dayton.

Brickler & Eckler, L.L.P., Quintin F. Lindsmith, Vladimir Bolo, and Natalie T. Furniss, for amicus curiae Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc.

Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr., Columbus City Attorney, for amicus curiae city of Columbus.

Robert Triozzi, Cleveland Law Director, Thomas J. Kaiser, Chief Trial Counsel, and Gary S. Singletary, Assistant Law Director, for amicus curiae city of Cleveland.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Carrie M. Dunn, and John W. Solomon, for amicus curiae Traffipax, Inc.

John T. Madigan, Toledo Law Director, and Adam Loukx, General Counsel, for amicus curiae city of Toledo.


LANZINGER, J.

{¶ 1} In this case, we decide whether a municipality may constitutionally use its home-rule powers to authorize a method of traffic enforcement that imposes a civil fine on the registered owner of a vehicle identified by automatic camera to be speeding in a school zone.

{¶ 2} We have accepted pursuant to S.Ct.Prac...

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