River City Capital, L.P. v. Board of County Commissioners, Clermont County, Ohio

OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

This case presents a familiar question in our circuit: whether a plaintiff in Ohio may proceed directly in federal court based on an alleged unconstitutional taking of his private property by a government entity, or whether he must first exhaust Ohio state remedies. We hold that state exhaustion is required, regardless of the nature of the taking, in keeping with this Court’s recent decisions in Coles v. Granville, 448 F.3d 853 (6th Cir.2006) and McNamara v. Rittman, 473 F.3d 633 (6th Cir.2007). Because Plaintiff River City Capital has failed to…