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Statewide Preemption Headed To The Ohio Supreme Court This Year

Ohio --(AmmoLand.com)- The Ohio Supreme Court today agreed to hear Cleveland v. State of Ohio, a lawsuit in which the City of Cleveland is challenging the constitutionality of statewide preemption.

The lower courts have twice denied Ohioans For Concealed Carry’s efforts to intervene in the litigation despite our role as the plaintiff in the precedent case, Ohioans For Concealed Carry v. City of Clyde.

The local courts agreed with the legislature and refused to overturn preemption, but the appeals court sided with Cleveland and, to a certain extent, challenged the Ohio Supreme Court’s precedent on this matter in our case against Clyde.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later this year. In cases like this the position of the legislature (and, in this case, Ohioans For Concealed Carry) will be defended and argued by the Ohio Attorney General’s office. Attorneys representing Ohioans For Concealed Carry will file friend of the court briefs in the coming months. A pro-gun “win” in this case would be a majority decision overruling the appeals court, maintaining the Ohio Supreme Court’s recent precedent in OFCC v. Clyde.

This case highlights the importance of upcoming Ohio Supreme Court justice elections.

For more on the story see this story on our website;

…A pro-gun win in this case will be a ruling against the City of Cleveland, and overturning the appeals courts decision that was in favor of Cleveland.

All this occurring as recent polls show Americans Say Cities Have No Right To Ban Handguns .

About:
Ohioans for Concealed Carry, founded in 1999, is a grassroots political activist organization. When founded, the primary goal of OFCC was getting concealed carry passed into law in Ohio. With that accomplished, our mission became to refine the concealed carry law and to expand and preserve the rights of all gun owners in Ohio. Visit: Ohioccw.org

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