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Two Recent Ohio State Supreme Court Rulings

Court Rules Vehicle Seller Not Liable for Prior Owner's Tampering With Odometer

From the site: "2008-1451.  State ex rel. Cordray v. Midway Motor Sales, Inc., Slip Opinion No. 2009-Ohio-2610.

Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2009/2009-Ohio-2610.pdf

(June 10, 2009) The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today that the state law requiring the seller of a motor vehicle to provide the buyer with a statement certifying the accuracy of the odometer reading is not a "strict liability" statute, and therefore does not impose liability on a seller of a vehicle unless the seller knowingly provided an inaccurate odometer statement."

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Court Upholds State Law Barring Cities from Requiring Employees to Live Within City Limits

From the site: "2008-0128 and 2008-0418.  Lima v. State, Slip Opinion No. 2009-Ohio-2597
Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2009/2009-Ohio-2597.pdf

(June 10, 2009) The Supreme Court of Ohio today upheld as constitutional a 2006 state law that bars a political subdivision of the state (e.g., a city, county, township or school district) from requiring its employees, as a condition of employment, to reside within that political subdivision."

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Source for both: The Supreme Court of Ohio, 10 June 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).