Payday Lenders Sue Ohio AG

Legal Newsline: A Franklin County, Ohio, common pleas court judge denied the motion of a special interest group to issue a temporary restraining order Tuesday against Ohio Attorney General Nancy Hardin Rogers. The request was filed as part of a lawsuit initiated Monday by the REJECT HB 545 Committee, an organization seeking to overturn a new Ohio law severely limiting the ability of payday lenders to do business in the state. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner was named a co-defendant in the lawsuit. A hearing on the committee's request for a permanent injunction should be scheduled soon. According to William M. Todd, Of Counsel with the Columbus law firm of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff and the lawyer representing the payday lending industry, both Rogers and Brunner have failed to act promptly on proposed ballot language submitted by the Committee.

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