People of Medina Forced to Appeal to Ohio Supreme Court. 5500 Residents Signed Petitions to Qualify Measure for Vote in November.
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 9, 2016.
Broadview Heights, Ohio: Today, citizens of Medina County filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court to reverse a decision of the Medina Board of Elections and Secretary of State (SOS) Jon Husted to keep their County Charter initiative off the November ballot.
The citizen-sponsored measure, which received more than enough signatures of voters to qualify for the ballot, recognizes the people’s right to local self-government, including the right to prohibit fracking, dumping of oil and gas waste, extraction of county water for fracking, and new fracking infrastructure projects such as the Nexus pipeline and compressor station. …
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