In The Wall Street Journal, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, argues that California’s Proposition 12 not only violates the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause, but it is also a threat to state sovereignty, which is why The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross.
In a Buckeye Institute case a judge last week ordered Cleveland to refund income taxes for a doctor working remotely during the pandemic, leaving many other Ohioans who worked from home in 2020 wondering what it means for them. Cleveland.com’s Today on Ohio podcast asks if taxing people who don’t work or live in your city could qualify as unconstitutional. Editor Chris Quinn hosts the daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin, and content director Laura Johnston.;
“Like most states around the country, Ohio has posted a ‘Help Wanted” sign on its door. Getting quality labor has become its own national crisis as the U.S. workforce has roughly 600,000 fewer workers than it did before the pandemic.” In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute offers solutions to Ohio’s worker shortage crisis, writing, “Ohio businesses need help. They need workers willing to learn a trade, practice a profession, and build a career. And they need public policies that will help them get that job done.”
The Buckeye Institute challenged Ohio’s pandemic municipal tax rules to permit taxing people where they were neither working nor living. And now it’s won a case against Cleveland. Cleveland.com’s Today on Ohio podcast talks about what this means for Ohioans who paid taxes in their office cities while working at home during the pandemic. Editor Chris Quinn hosts the daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin, and content director Laura Johnston.
The Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court ruled in favor of The Buckeye Institute’s client Dr. Manal Morsy in Morsy v. Dumas. The court denied Cleveland’s motion to dismiss the case and ordered Cleveland to refund all withholdings or payments collected on income Dr. Morsy earned during the pandemic shutdown. The court further ordered the city to pay Dr. Morsy’s court costs. Morsy v. Dumas is one of five similar cases Buckeye has brought challenging Ohio’s municipal income tax system since the pandemic.
The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Tyler v. Hennepin County, asking the court to hear the case and protect the rights of people who have their property seized by the government from home equity theft. Buckeye was joined on the brief by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “By pocketing $25,000 in profits from the sale of Ms. Tyler’s home, Hennepin County has robbed Ms. Tyler of her home’s equity, plain and simple.”
The Buckeye Institute joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division to quash a Department of Justice subpoena served on the Eagle Forum of Alabama, which the Biden Administration issued in an effort to weaponize the civil litigation process “against organizations with whom the United States Government disagrees.” Buckeye urges the court to “not only quash the subpoena but make clear that using the civil litigation process to chill and intimidate those who may disagree on important political issues is categorically unacceptable.”
The Buckeye Institute commented on the newly released jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, saying, “Despite the mixed bag of good and bad news, this jobs report is only one month of data and does not present a worrying trend alone. The bigger story is that Ohio’s job market is not growing as fast as it was in the spring. But opportunities are on the horizon. With Intel breaking ground on its new manufacturing plant, there should be greater job growth in the future, and policymakers must take action now to ensure that Ohio has enough workers to fill these new jobs.”
The Buckeye Institute announced on Thursday that David C. Tryon has joined its Legal Center as director of litigation. Tryon will oversee and manage Buckeye’s litigation and filings, legal team including its outside counsel, and actively participate in Buckeye’s cases in both state and federal court. “Even though he graduated from That School Up North, The Buckeye Institute is nonetheless extraordinarily pleased to have Dave Tryon join our busy legal team and bring his tremendous legal expertise back home to Ohio.”
In a new policy report, #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning, The Buckeye Institute outlines how empowering parents, funding students first, and enhancing school choice can counteract the ill effects the pandemic had on learning loss for Ohio’s K-12 students. “Families deserve these reforms as their students struggle to overcome the negative long-term effects of the pandemic protocols that cost them valuable years of learning.”
