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Cities Within A City : On Changing Cleveland's Government, Burt W. Griffin Jan 1981

Cities Within A City : On Changing Cleveland's Government, Burt W. Griffin

Cleveland Memory

Burt W. Griffin has been a judge of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio since January 3, 1975. From 1966 to 1975, he served as a legal aid lawyer in various capacities including Executive Director of the Cleveland Legal Aid Society and National Director of the Legal Services Program, U.S. Office of Economic opportunity. He was Assistant Counsel to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy during 1964. Judge Griffin has been a life-long resident of Greater Cleveland. He was born in Cleveland's Hough section in 1932, lived in the Shaker Square area of Cleveland from …


Implied Warranties In Ohio Home Sales, Susan B. Brooks Jan 1981

Implied Warranties In Ohio Home Sales, Susan B. Brooks

Cleveland State Law Review

The majority of states other than Ohio have rejected the caveat emptor doctrine and adopted an implied warranty of habitability in the sale of new homes, but the irony of this situation is that it was an Ohio case, Vanderschrier v. Aaron, that first recognized implied warranties in the sale of a home. This Note will demonstrate that Ohio should adopt an implied warranty of habitability in the sale of new homes by builder-vendors.


After House Bill 920: An Analysis Of Needed Real Property Tax Reform, Robert P. Rink Jan 1981

After House Bill 920: An Analysis Of Needed Real Property Tax Reform, Robert P. Rink

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note will analyze the current state of real property tax law in Ohio and its relationship to H.B. 920. The tax reform provision of H.B. 920 will be separately analyzed from both the historical perspective surrounding its passage and the technical perspective of its mathematical calculations. A further analysis of the relationship between taxation by uniform rule under Article XII, § 2 of the Ohio Constitution will be undertaken. The conclusion will focus on a constitutionally valid solution to the problem of property tax reform while, at the same time, noting several essential and unusual questions.