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The Buckeye Institute Takes Columbus Tax Case to Ohio Supreme Court

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The Buckeye Institute filed its appeal in Buckeye v. Kilgore with the Ohio Supreme Court asking the court to hear the case and recognize Ohio’s emergency-based local income tax system—where the state forced people to work from home, but nonetheless deemed their work to have been performed in a higher-taxed office location—as unconstitutional. “The Buckeye Institute is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to reaffirm that established and commonsense limits on municipal taxation, and the Due Process Clause, apply—even during a pandemic.” ;  

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The Buckeye Institute Urges U.S. Supreme Court to End Laws that Force Attorneys to Support Political Speech

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The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in McDonald v. Firth, urging the court to hear the case and end laws that force lawyers to join state-sponsored bar associations that engage in lobbying on inherently political and ideological issues to practice their profession. “Forcing attorneys to pay dues—that subsidize political and ideological speech—to the State Bar of Texas violates the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of association.” 

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The Buckeye Institute Celebrates HUGE Victory in Vaccine Mandate Case

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The Buckeye Institute celebrated a victory in its case—Phillips v. OSHA—challenging the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate. The Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency stay halting the enforcement of the unlawful Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) mandate. “While this case is far from over, today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling gives business owners and workers some measure of certainty that they will not be forced to implement a costly vaccine mandate that violates numerous constitutional principles and laws.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Brief Urging Ohio Supreme Court to Uphold Ohio’s Right to End Unemployment Bonus Program

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The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court in Bowling v. DeWine urging to the court to 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. “The employment data show what everyone knows instinctively—government incentives matter. Governor DeWine was well within his authority under Ohio law to opt-out of the extended pandemic benefits which were slowing Ohio’s economic recovery.”;  

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The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt Responds to Vaccine Mandate Oral Arguments at SCOTUS

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Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute and a lead attorney representing Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company and Sixarp LLC against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine mandate, issued a statement after the U.S. Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the vaccine mandate case, saying in part, “If OSHA’s unlawful vaccine mandate is allowed to take effect on Monday, it will catalyze predictably devastating consequences on the supply chain and impose irreparable economic harm upon companies including our clients.”

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The Buckeye Institute Releases Economic Freedom of North America 2021 Report

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For another year, Ohio ranked an unimpressive 35th out of all 50 states in the Economic Freedom of North America 2021 report, released by the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute in partnership with Canada’s Fraser Institute. The report ranks every state and province in North America based on economic freedom. “In the 2021 Economic Freedom of North America report, Ohio maintained a lackluster rating of 35th in the nation, its best score in the index’s history, but below average nevertheless.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Latest Attempt to Deny Ohio Families Freedom of School Choice is ‘Wasteful’

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Greg R. Lawson, The Buckeye Institute; Eric “Yitz” Frank, School Choice Ohio; and Chad L. Aldis, Thomas B. Fordham Institute issued a statement on the lawsuit challenging Ohio’s school choice programs, saying in part, “The question on whether Ohio’s school choice programs are constitutional has already been asked and answered. Rather than waste taxpayers’ money, backers of this latest attempt to deny Ohio parents any choice in education would serve students better by actually working with families to ensure Ohio’s students are prepared for college, career, and real life.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Brief Requesting U.S. Supreme Court to Immediately Stay OSHA Vaccine Mandate

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The Buckeye Institute filed its reply brief in the Supreme Court of the United States outlining why an emergency stay is urgently needed in Buckeye’s OSHA vaccine mandate case—Phillips v. OSHA. “If the court does not act immediately to halt the vaccine mandate’s implementation, these companies will be compelled to comply with this unlawful requirement and forced to implement expensive policies and practices that will threaten their businesses, expose them to penalties for noncompliance, and cost them qualified, well-trained, good employees at a time when they are already suffering a labor shortage.”

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“In Amicus Brief, The Buckeye Institute Supports Property Owners Whose Land Was ‘Taken’ by Federal Government”

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The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Ideker Farms v. The United States, supporting farmers along the Missouri River whose property has been lost due to federal government-caused flooding. “The federal government encouraged the plaintiffs to farm this land and now government-caused flooding is making farming impossible. This clearly meets the definition of a taking under the Fifth Amendment, and—as the lower court ruled—the landowners are due financial compensation for their loss.”

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The Buckeye Institute Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Protect First Amendment Rights of Lawyers

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The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in Schell v. Darby, which calls on the court to recognize the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of association by ending laws that force lawyers to join state-sponsored bar associations that engage in lobbying on inherently political and ideological issues to practice their profession. “Everyone in the United States has the constitutional right of freedom of speech and freedom of association—even lawyers.”

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