Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory

This case presents a challenge to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.29 (D) (1) (a) (1973). That statute, at the times rele vant to this suit, imposed a disqualification for unemployment benefits when the claimant’s unemployment was “due to a labor dispute other than a lockout at any factory . . . owned or operated by the employer by which he is or was last employed.” The challenge is based on the Supremacy Clause and on the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case also raises questions concerning abstention.

I

In November 1974 plaintiff-appellee, Leonard Paul…