State ex rel. Brown v. Summit County Board of Elections

Relator challenges the constitutionality of Section 4.03 of the Stow Charter as being in violation of the equal protection provisions set forth in the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and in Section 2, Article I, and Section 26, Article II of the Ohio Constitution.

We hold the durational residency requirement of the Stow Charter to be constitutional.

“In order to grant a writ of mandamus, a court must find that the relator has a clear legal right to the relief prayed for, that the respondent is under a clear legal duty to perform the requested act, and that…