The Second Court of Appeals upheld Fort Worth’s zoning restrictions confining short-term rentals to designated areas, rejecting constitutional challenges from property owners operating STRs in residential districts.
The Ninth District reversed a contempt finding, holding that community control violations in misdemeanor cases cannot be prosecuted as criminal contempt under R.C. 2929.25 and that the trial court lacked authority after community control expired.
The Ninth District reversed summary judgment for the City of Hudson, holding that a termination clause in an MOU requiring good-faith negotiation of a commercially reasonable termination may be an enforceable agreement to negotiate under Ohio law.
The Eleventh District dismissed a mandamus petition challenging a city’s billboard moratorium, holding that the relator failed to name the building administrator (the individual with the duty to act) and that the city building department, as a non-sui juris entity, could not be a mandamus respondent.