State ex rel. City of Upper Arlington v. Franklin County Board of Elections

{¶ 1} This is an expedited election action for a writ of prohibition to prevent the board of elections from placing an ordinance proposed by an initiative petition on the November 4, 2008 election ballot. In the alternative, relators initially requested a writ of mandamus to compel the board of elections to decide a protest against the petition filed by two of the three relators, but upon the board’s subsequent denial of the protest, they agree that their mandamus claim is now moot. Because the enactment sought to be repealed by the proposed ordinance constituted an administrative action and…