Court Rules Ohio AG Must Bow Out Of Property Rights Dispute

Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Topics: Environment, Politics, Other
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Environmental activists in Ohio are used to having the state attorney general on their side, at least when it comes to a dispute over the public's right to walk along the 312-mile shoreline of Lake Erie. Now, though, a state appeals court has declared the A.G. doesn't have the legal standing to be involved in this dispute...and the current attorney general has yet to signal whether he even WANTS to be involved. That's making the "green" activists see red. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.