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Ohio's Supreme Court will decide if Gov. Mike DeWine could close the $300 weekly pandemic check program early
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — It’s a question that’s lingered for years: did Gov. Mike DeWine have the authority to end the federal pandemic assistance program in June 2021 before it was set to end three months later, as several Republican-led states did? A group of 300,000 Ohioans have sued the state, saying they’re owed $900 million in federal funds from the FPUC program. The Ohio Supreme Court will decide.
[Daniel Konik | Statehouse News Bureau]The justices had dismissed the workers’ claims in 2022 as moot. The plaintiffs went back to court, arguing the justices had ruled on a preliminary injunction related to the case and not the central issue of DeWine’s power to end the program early, at the request of business groups which felt the $300 weekly checks were keeping people from looking for or taking jobs. In 2025, a Franklin County judge sided with the plaintiffs, as did the Tenth District Court of Appeals.
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Ohio Chief Justice Skeptical of Effort to Obtain Covid Benefits
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Ohio’s chief justice appeared skeptical Wednesday that plaintiffs seeking roughly $900 million in Covid-19-era unemployment insurance benefits that the state’s governor forwent could still press their case.
That’s because of a one-sentence order the state Supreme Court issued in 2022 that said “this cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as moot.” At the time, the plaintiffs suing Gov. Mike DeWine (R) for his early withdrawal in 2021 from a benefits program were appealing the denial of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, but Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy (R) noted that the case wasn’t explicitly sent back to the trial …
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