State ex rel. Concerned Citizens for More Professional Government v. City Council of Zanesville

In order to be entitled to a writ of mandamus, relator must establish that (1) it has a clear legal right to have the proposed charter issue placed on the November 8, 1994 ballot, (2) respondents have a corresponding legal duty to submit the ordinance concerning the charter issue by placing it on the November 8, 1994 ballot, and (3) relator possesses no adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. State ex rel. Seikbert v. Wilkinson (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 489, 490, 633 N.E.2d 1128, 1129.

Relator asserts in its sole proposition of law that respondents must pass the proposed ordinance…