CITY OF CINCINNATI v. STATE (2026)

Supreme Court of Ohio.

The CITY OF CINCINNATI et al., Appellants, v. The STATE of Ohio, Appellee.

No. 2024-1158

Decided: July 09, 2026

Emily Smart Woerner, Cincinnati City Solicitor, and Scott M. Heenan and Shuva J. Paul, Assistant City Solicitors, for appellants, the City of Cincinnati, Mayor Aftab Pureval, and Vice-Mayor Jan-Michele Kearney. D. Andrew Wilson, Attorney General, Anchorage and Stephen P. Tabatowski, Julie M. Pfieffer, and Gregory A. Rustico, for appellee.

{¶ 1} The judgment of the First District Court of Appeals is affirmed on the authority of Doe v. Columbus, 2026-Ohio-1095, ––– Ohio St.3d ––––, ––– N.E.3d ––––.

The below judgment of the court was joined by Kennedy, C.J., and DeWine, Deters, Hawkins, and Shanahan, JJ. Fischer and Brunner, JJ., dissented and would dismiss the appeal as having been improvidently accepted.

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