City of Cincinnati v. State

Miller, Judge.

{¶ 1} The state of Ohio challenges the trial court's judgment that certain provisions of 2016 S.B. 331 ("S.B. 331") violated the "single-subject" rule in Article II, Section 15(D) of the Ohio Constitution. In one assignment of error, the state contends (1) that the trial court erred in holding that the provisions challenged by the city did not fall within the bill's single subject of, according to the state, creating uniform business regulations across Ohio; and (2) that the trial court inappropriately severed unchallenged provisions of S.B. 331. The state's first argument is…