Siltstone Servs., L.L.C. v. Guernsey Cty. Community Dev. Corp.

2022 Ohio 4659, 220 N.E.3d 762, 171 Ohio St. 3d 762

• Court: Ohio Supreme Court
• Decided: December 27, 2022
• Docket: 2020-1093
• Status: Published

Opinion

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Siltstone Servs., L.L.C. v. Guernsey Cty. Community Dev. Corp., Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio- 4659.]

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SLIP OPINION NO. 2022-OHIO-4659 SILTSTONE SERVICES, L.L.C., APPELLEE, v. GUERNSEY COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ET AL., APPELLANTS; ET AL., APPELLEES. [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Siltstone Servs., L.L.C. v. Guernsey Cty. Community Dev. Corp., Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4659.] Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed on the authority of Siltstone Resources, L.L.C. v. Ohio Pub. Works Comm. and Ohio Pub. Works Comm. v. Barnesville. (No. 2020-1093―Submitted December 23, 2022―Decided December 27, 2022.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Guernsey County, No. 19CA000047, 2020-Ohio-3877. _________________ {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the authority of Siltstone Resources, L.L.C. v. Ohio Pub. Works Comm., ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2022- Ohio-483, ___ N.E.3d ___, and Ohio Pub. Works Comm. v. Barnesville, ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2022-Ohio-4603, ___ N.E.3d ___. Appellant Guernsey County SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

Community Development Corporation’s proposition of law No. III is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. O’CONNOR, C.J., and FISCHER, DONNELLY, STEWART, and BRUNNER, JJ., concur. KENNEDY, J., dissents and for the reasons set forth in her dissenting opinion in Barnesville, would reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and would reinstate the trial court’s judgment. DEWINE, J., dissents and would reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and would reinstate the trial court’s judgment. _________________ Dave Yost, Attorney General, Benjamin M. Flowers, Solicitor General, Samuel C. Peterson, Deputy Solicitor General, and Rachel Huston and Caroline Mills, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee Ohio Public Works Commission. Kohrman, Jackson & Krantz, L.L.P., and Maribeth Meluch; and Hanlon, McCormick, Schramm, Bickford & Schramm Co., L.P.A., Erik A. Schramm, and Kyle W. Bickford, for appellant Guernsey County Community Development Corporation. Pelini, Campbell & Williams, L.L.C., Craig G. Pelini, and Paul B. Ricard, for appellants Synergy Land Company, L.L.C., and Whispering Pines Land Company, L.L.C. Bricker & Eckler, L.L.P., Matthew W. Warnock, Christine Rideout Schirra, Kara H. Herrnstein, and Aaron M. Bruggeman, for appellant Gulfport Energy Corporation. _________________