Ohio Contractors Ass'n v. Bicking

Francis E. Sweeney, Sr., J.

Ohio Contractors Association asks this court to decide the legality of a village’s decision to use its own, regularly employed workforce on a public project and to pay them less than the prevailing wage rather than competitively bid the work to outside contractors. Since we find that OCA does not have standing, we decline to reach the merits of this case. Instead, we dismiss the cause due to OCA’s lack of standing.

The question of standing is whether a litigant is entitled to have a court determine the merits of the issues presented. Warth v. Seldin (1975), 422 U.S.…