Cincinnati v. Bench Billboard Co.

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 362

Syllabus

RES JUDICATA – CLAIM PRECLUSION – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CIVIL – STANDING: Where the city sued defendant company, which provided advertising benches in the city's rights-of-way, the trial court did not err in entering a judgment in favor of the city that ordered defendant to pay fines, penalties and costs for 55 violations of the city's municipal code, upheld 75 additional violations, and denied defendant's counterclaims, because all of defendant's claims were adjudicated against it in a prior case between the parties or could have been raised in the prior case, and defendant's asserted injury due to alleged violations of defendant's constitutional rights could not be redressed because it had not otherwise complied with the requirements of the city's municipal code.