Singer v. Cincinnati

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal, the transcript of the docket, journal entries and original papers from the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, the briefs and the argument of appellees' counsel.

In January 1987. council members for defendant-appellant, The City of Cincinnati (City), enacted an ordinance forbidding the "owning," "keeping," or "harboring" of pit bull terriers in Cincinnati. Plaintiffs-appellants, Rochelle Singer and Richard Foreman, owners and breeders of registered American Staffordshire Terriers, a type of bull specifically banned by the ordinance, sought a…