At least part of the Ohio Supreme Court was skeptical Tuesday of an effort by state officials to overturn a legal test that evaluates the state’s power to restrict municipalities from enforcing certain ordinances.
Deputy Ohio Solicitor General Zachery P. Keller urged the court to abolish the 2002 test used to determine whether a so-called “general law” violates the state constitution’s home-rule provision—which generally gives municipalities the power to govern and police themselves—and say that a law is one “that applies uniformly across the state.”
But multiple justices pushed back in more than 30 minutes of lively arguments in a ...