State ex rel. Plain Dealer v. Cleveland

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State ex rel. Plain Dealer vs. Cleveland Number: 106 Ohio St. 3d 70, 831 N.E.2d 987 Year: 1996 State: Ohio Court: Ohio Supreme Court Other lawsuits in Ohio Other lawsuits in 1996 Precedents include: This case, based on the separation of powers, rendered constitutional officers exempt from public records requests, but not the entire executive nor the executive offices of political subdivisions.

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State ex rel. Plain Dealer v. Cleveland is a 1996 court ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court about interpreting the Ohio Open Records Law.

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The finding in the case is the doctrine of separation of powers may mean that Ohio's sunshine law does not apply to the records of the state's constitutional officers (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, and Attorney General) but any such doctrine about separation of powers does not mean that the law doesn't apply to mayors or other chief executives of political subdivisionsin the state.