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The Solicitor General of Ohio is the top appellate lawyer in the attorney general's office. In November 2014, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine secured a $22 million settlement from the credit score company ScoreSense, which is owned by the company One Technologies. DeWine had filed civil charges against the company along with the Illinois ...
(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is at odds with state business groups over state liquor sale profits funneled to a private, nonprofit organization for economic development.
He was elected Ohio's 32nd state auditor in November 2010, after earlier vying for the Republican nomination for Ohio attorney general against Mike DeWine. [9] In January 2017, Yost announced he was running for Ohio Attorney General in 2018.
In 1994 Montgomery was urged by Republican Party leaders to challenge Democrat Lee Fisher for the job of Ohio Attorney General. Montgomery was the first Republican attorney general in 24 years to hold the office. She faced an uphill battle against the very-popular Fisher. [5] Montgomery campaigned on her record as a prosecutor.
Ohio's high court has given Republican Attorney General Dave Yost until Monday to respond to the legal claims of a coalition of civil rights organizations that is challenging his rejection of a ...
The Ohio Apportionment Board draws state legislative district lines in Ohio. In order to be enacted into law, a bill must be adopted by both houses of the General Assembly and signed by the Governor. If the Governor vetoes a bill, the General Assembly can override the veto with a three-fifths supermajority of both houses.
Attorney General Dave Yost approved the summary for the proposed amendment after the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the review in late October following Yost’s rejection based on the title.
The position was created in 1993 by Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher and was first filled by Richard Cordray. It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General. [1] By 2003, twenty-nine states had Solicitors General, although only eight had them fifteen years earlier. [2]