Ohio Court of Appeals Rejects Sanctions Against City of Munroe Falls

By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.

Four years after the Supreme Court of Ohio struck down the City of Munroe Falls’ attempt to regulate oil and gas development through zoning, a lower appeals court held that the City and its law director could not sanctioned for attempting to enforce ordinances that required Beck Energy to obtain a zoning certificate and/or variance prior to drilling wells within the city. Read more.