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National Review: Public unions can’t deny their activismDecember 8, 2017
Toledo Blade: Free speech can sometimes be uglySeptember 9, 2017
Toledo Blade: Perrysburg prevented from prohibiting political signsAugust 31, 2017
Toledo Blade: Company shifts area ethane pipeline routeApril 10, 2017
Cato Daily Podcast: Bureaucratic Searches vs. the Fourth AmendmentOctober 26, 2016
Toledo Blade: End private takings of landOctober 23, 2016
Washington Post: Victories for property rights in Pennsylvania and Ohio state courtsOctober 18, 2016
Sandusky Register: Ruling could help farmers battling pipelinesOctober 17, 2016
Sentinel-Tribune: Court rules Kinder Morgan can’t use eminent domain for pipelineOctober 13, 2016
Toledo Blade: Wood County judge nixes pipeline builder’s eminent domain plansOctober 12, 2016
Sentinel-Tribune: Landowners challenge notion of positive impact from pipelineAugust 30, 2016
Cincinnati.com: Column: Refund checks finally in the mailJuly 28, 2016
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio can’t demand records from gold shops without warrant, judge rulesJune 2, 2016
Cincinnati.com: Column: Indian Hill school district tax refund checkMarch 31, 2016
Cincinnati.com: Indian Hill school district has to give back tax moneyJanuary 8, 2016
Ohio Watchdog: Ohio judge: Blog post criticizing mayor not defamatioNovember 17, 2015
The Plain Dealer: Judge tosses Maple Heights mayor’s suit against councilmanNovember 16, 2015
700WLW Cincinnati: Indian Hill School District to Return $5.5 Million in Illegal TaxesNovember 11, 2015
Ohio Watchdog: Ohio court says city can’t use ‘quick-take’ to seize propertyNovember 3, 2015
Newsweek: Ohio Weighs Legalizing Recreational MarijuanaNovember 2, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: Conservative lawyer sees ill effects from ‘anti-monopoly’ Issue 2October 30, 2015
The Times Herald: Wallace: Federal court rules rental inspections unconstitutionalOctober 24, 2015
Daily Signal: Homeowners in This Ohio Town Had Their Front Yards Seized By the GovernmentOctober 23, 2015
Medical Daily: Amish Family Wins Chemotherapy Case; Daughter No Longer Forced To Receive Leukemia TreatmentOctober 12, 2015
U.S. News and World Report: Ohio judge ends guardianship of Amish girl who resisted bid to force chemotherapyOctober 9, 2015
Business Insider: Court battle over Amish girl’s cancer treatment endsOctober 9, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: Rental inspections ruled unconstitutionalOctober 4, 2015
Medina Gazette: Attorney: Amish girl who fled country to avoid chemo is cancer-freeOctober 2, 2015
WDTN-TV 2: Federal judge rules Ohio city’s warrantless rental property inspections are unconstitutionalOctober 2, 2015
Portsmouth Daily Times: The original Portsmouth licensing fee declared unconstitutionalOctober 1, 2015
Cincinnati.com: Opinion: Ozone rules would devastate Ohio economySeptember 29, 2015
Portsmouth Daily Times: Term limits to be ballot issueSeptember 9, 2015
Toledo Blade: Proposals to tighten, loosen state term limits gain tractionSeptember 7, 2015
Akron Beacon Journal via Associated Press: Ohio senators delay vote on anti-monopoly item aimed at potJune 30, 2015
Town Hall: Democracy By PretenseMay 17, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: Battle brewing in Ohio over extension of term limitsMay 15, 2015
Morning Journal: Defenders of term limits take fight to Ohio’s capital cityMay 15, 2015
Toledo Blade: Ohio legislators’ term-limit proposal stirs debateMay 15, 2015
The Plain Dealer: Political action group formed to fight any attempt to change Ohio’s legislative term limitsMay 14, 2015
WKBN 27 First News: Defenders of term limits take fight to Ohio’s capital cityMay 14, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: Maurice Thompson commentary: Ohio is better off with term limits for state lawmakersMay 4, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: Judge finds Husted liable for enforcing unconstitutional lawMarch 16, 2015
Cincinnati.com: Indian Hill Board stonewalls refund of inside millage taxMarch 12, 2015
The Plain Dealer: Obamacare case before Supreme Court could lead to chaos, advocates sayMarch 4, 2015
WCBE 90.5 FM: Federal Court Case On ACA Subsidies Could Affect 235,000 OhioansMarch 3, 2015
Fierce Health Payer: Past amendments could prohibit states from establishing exchangesMarch 3, 2015
National Journal: Those Obamacare Nullification Amendments Could Make a Big Comeback Post-SCOTUSMarch 2, 2015
Sandusky Register: Public events announced on proposed gas pipelineJanuary 23, 2015
Natural Gas Intel: Ohio Couple Fighting Eminent Domain For Tetco ProjectJanuary 15, 2015
Cincinnati.com: Opinion: Red-light camera ruling a failDecember 22, 2015
















































