ODNR Must Demonstrate Why It Should Not Be Held in Contempt of Court

A year after ordering a state agency to compensate landowners for "taking" their property, the Ohio Supreme Court asks attorneys for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) why it hasn't complied.

At the show cause hearing, ODNR presents arguments for why it shouldn't be held in contempt.

On December 1, 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously ordered ODNR to commence appropriation proceedings to compensate landowners west of Grand Lake St. Mary's for a "taking" of their property caused by increased overflows from the lake into Beaver Creek resulting from a widening of the western spillway.