Committee: Organization and Administration Committee Subcommittee on Executive Director Hiring Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Time: 12:30pm Room: Room 1576, Vern Riffe Center, 77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 The subcommittee will meet to discuss the Executive Director position and applicants. **Possible Vote on the recommendation for Executive Director
The following meetings will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio: 9:00am Constitutional Revisions & Updating Committee – Room 115 Legislative Branch and Executive Branch Committee – Room 114 ( Presentations by Tom Brunell, Professor of Political Science School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences The University of Texas
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The Ohio Supreme Court head oral arguments today in ProgressOhio v. JobsOhio, the case which will determine whether liberal group ProgressOhio has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the JobsOhio Act. Argument Video. Oral Argument Preview. See our prior post
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Committee: Organization and Administration Committee Subcommittee on Executive Director Hiring Date: Thursday, November 7, 2013 Time: 9:00am Room: Room 1576, Vern Riffe Center, 77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 The subcommittee will meet to discuss the Executive Director position and applicants. **Possible Vote on the recommendation for Executive Director Committee: Organization and Administration Committee
The Ohio Supreme Court granted Petitioner’s motion to expedite the case in State ex rel. Cleveland Right to Life, Supreme Court docket Case number 2013-1668. See our prior post Lawsuit Claims Governor’s Use of Controlling Board to Expand Ohio Medicaid Unconstitutional. The Court set the schedule as follows: Respondents shall file an answer to the
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The Ohio Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments concerning whether a teenager has a right to attend and participate in a visitation hearing. The teenager moved for such participation, as well as to terminate all visitation. The trial court denied these motions, and awarded unsupervised visitation to the father. In their appeal, A.G.’s attorneys argued
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The 1851 Constitution Center filed a suit in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of six Republican legislators and Cleveland Right to Life, asserting that Governor Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid violated the legislature’s powers as set out in Article II of the Ohio Constitution. Funding for the expansion was accomplished by an action of
State v. Boykin, 2013-Ohio-4582 (Ohio Oct. 22, 2013) held that neither the Ohio Constitution, Ohio Revised Code or case law require the sealing of a criminal record based on a pardon. The Ohio Constitution also militates against Boykin’s argument that a pardon automatically entitles the recipient to have the record of the pardoned conviction sealed.
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Introduced on October 24, 2013, Ohio House Joint Resolution 8 proposes to amend the Ohio Constitution to: “institute term limits for certain elected and appointed officials and to increase the term limits for members of the General Assembly.” This joint resolution must be approved by 60% of both houses of the legislature in order to
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In their recent letter to the people of Ohio, the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission explains their work and encourages public participation. OCMC Open Letter 9-2013