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The Buckeye Institute Leads the Charge in Asking U.S. Supreme Court for Emergency Stay in OSHA Vaccine Mandate Case

The Buckeye Institute filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting an emergency stay of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in Phillips v. OSHA. Underscoring the true urgency of the case, The Buckeye Institute filed its motion in the U.S. Supreme Court less than one hour after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision came down granting the government’s request to dissolve the existing administrative stay that was previously issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.;  

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The Buckeye Institute Urges Ohio Supreme Court to Protect Property Rights from Government Land Grabs

The Buckeye Institute joined Pacific Legal Foundation in filing an amicus brief asking the Ohio Supreme Court to hear U.S. Bank v. Summit County, which challenges the ability of county landbanks to seize property without compensating owners or banks with a financial stake in the property. “While the idea of taking abandoned or tax delinquent property has an appeal, the current practice…violates the fundamental principle…that the government can take property for public use only when it provides just compensation to property owners.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Motion Demanding White House Stop Hiding Documents in OSHA Vaccine Mandate Case

The Buckeye Institute filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of its clients, Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company and Sixarp LLC, demanding that the White House produce all communications and records regarding the initiation and development of President Biden’s vaccine mandate. The White House has been perfectly clear that it imposed the vaccine mandate through OSHA in order to circumvent limits on federal power, and that its true intent is not related to genuine concern for workplace safety, but is rather to increase individual vaccination rates writ large. 

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The Buckeye Institute Urges Ohio Supreme Court to Rein in Government Overreach

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief asking the Ohio Supreme Court to hear Twism Enterprises v. State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors and end the practice of judicial deference to government agencies’ interpretation of law. “Since the beginning of the 20th century, federal courts have increasingly deferred to government agencies and allowed them to interpret the laws and rules that govern their work, effectively making unelected and unaccountable administrative agencies judge, jury, and executioner in questions relating to their statutory authority.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Amicus Brief Opposing Excessive Fines in Columbus Landscaping Case

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Stevens v. Columbus calling on the court to protect citizens from overzealous city ordinances that result in excessive fines in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. “Since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, English law and later the English Bill of Rights has prohibited excessive fines, and our Founding Fathers viewed the freedom from excessive fines as a fundamental protection of liberty.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Motion for Emergency Stay to Halt Biden’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate on Private Employers

The Buckeye Institute filed a Motion for Emergency Stay asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to immediately halt the federal vaccine mandate. Buckeye argues that the mandate—one of the most far-reaching and invasive rules ever promulgated by the federal government—exceeds OSHA’s authority, violates the major questions doctrine, violates the Congressional Review Act, and trammels on numerous constitutional principles including the non-delegation doctrine and limitations on federal power under the Commerce Clause.

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The Buckeye Institute Files Lawsuit Against Biden’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate on Private Businesses

The Buckeye Institute filed a legal challenge against the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate that applies to private companies with more than 100 employees. The lawsuit was filed directly with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company of Shelby, Ohio, and Sixarp, LLC of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The U.S. Department of Labor announced that the vaccine mandate will be officially published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 5, 2021.

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The Buckeye Institute Files Brief in Ohio v. Yellen to Protect Taxpayers Against Biden’s Tax Mandate

The Buckeye Institute filed its third amicus brief in Ohio v. Yellen, this time with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In its brief, The Buckeye Institute urged the court to uphold the decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, which agreed with Buckeye’s two previous briefs and ruled that the Biden Administration’s tax mandate—included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—is ambiguous and therefore unenforceable, and that the treasury secretary cannot fix Congress’s error through regulatory action.

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The Buckeye Institute Files Amicus Brief Urging Ohio Supreme Court to Hear Unemployment Bonus Case

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court urging the court to accept Ohio’s appeal in Bowling v. DeWine and affirm that Governor Mike DeWine has the authority to withdraw Ohio from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program, something The Buckeye Institute recommended as part of its Policy Solutions for the Pandemic series.

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The Buckeye Institute Files Appeal in Cincinnati Income Tax Case

The Buckeye Institute filed its appeal with Ohio’s First District Court of Appeals in Schaad v. Alder—a case challenging the constitutionality of Cincinnati taxing the income of nonresidents who did not work within the city of Cincinnati due to the pandemic. “The Buckeye Institute is confident that the Court of Appeals will follow recent Ohio Supreme Court precedent and recognize that when it comes to taxing nonresidents like Mr. Schaad, cities can only tax work that was actually performed within their borders.”

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