Opinion

Muenchenbach v. Preble County

  • 91 Ohio St. 3d 141
  • 742 N.E.2d 1128
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 14, 2001
Status
Published
Author
Douglas
On the bench
Cook, Douglas, Moyer, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stratton, Sweeney
Cited by
27 cases
Authority
More cited than 15.2%

“[W]hen the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous and conveys a clear and definite meaning, * * * we rely only on what the General Assembly actually said.”

How later courts described this case

  • “[W]hen the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous and conveys a clear and definite meaning, * * * we rely only on what the General Assembly actually said.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Douglas, J.,

concurring. I concur in the well-reasoned opinion and judgment of the majority. While so doing I continue to adhere to my dissent in Gladon v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Auth. (1996), 75 Ohio St.3d 312 , 662 N.E.2d 287 .

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