Abortion Ballot Language Court Case with Attorney Curt Hartman

<p>Attorney Curt Hartman filed the Mandamus Writ against the Ohio Ballot Board</p> <p>Atty Hartman discusses the State Supreme Court case on the abortion ballot language. A motion has been filed to expedite the hearing process on this case. The lawsuit calls on the court to require the Ballot Board to vacate its earlier decision If the court sends it back to the Ballot Board to divide the language into part petitions, each part petition would require summary language that then would have to be reviewed by the State Attorney General. This Supreme Court case is huge! </p> <p>Cincinnati-area attorney Curt Hartman represents two citizens, Margaret DeBlase and John Giroux, who filed the lawsuit against the members of the Ohio Ballot Board. That panel includes Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Sen. Theresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green), Sen. Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo), Rep. Elliot Forhan (D-South Euclid), and William Morgan, who was appointed by majority Republicans in the House.</p> <p>Hartman said the complaint filed with the high court argues the Ballot Board was wrong when it cleared the language as being one petition.</p> <p>“It clearly should be separated into concepts of abortion or decisions relating to deciding where to terminate a pregnancy on the one hand versus all of these other reproductive decisions," Hartman said.</p> <p>The lawsuit calls on the court to require the Ballot Board to vacate its earlier decision. It asks the court to force the board to divide the petition into individual parts and then certify the approval of each of the individual petitions as containing only one proposed amendment to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who earlier had approved the summary language of the petition. <a href='https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qsc-up6FUwHbCajI15S3olirj8St5tDa4tbZl08WGmZtRt1NQK9_a7Rnlmszw-Ot-4yyQuXZscuMcBvdGbE6ste9jwsYMkXrG7vG4YPliKv5Si4QVyZKvA2DeE8wru-VC5p3N5rW9mEA6IznIzUdnzCSOzBVSGfM7gOfrjmbCrY9AO48ZptxHudmLI_WiDdHqv8xtFtqyvfLwFksmUhjkw==&c=jIqamYxMae_qsz4O9mUw-V0Fp5j2_bf2ody62Z2ajv-eG