Johnson's Markets, Inc. v. New Carlisle Department of Health

The major issue presented in this case is whether, in construing the various sections of Ohio statutory law pertaining to the public health in regard to places where food is manufactured and places where food and food products are sold and handled within Ohio, it was the legislative scheme, or intent, that all such regulatory control be vested in the Department of Agriculture' or, conversely, whether it was intended that some regulation thereof may be exercised by boards of city health districts.

A secondary query presented is: assuming city health districts have been granted some degree of…