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Law’s Eric Chaffee comments on the strategy of Modell Law to keep the Browns downtown

Why the Modell Law may not be strong enough to keep the Browns in Cleveland
Crain’s Cleveland Business: Eric Chaffee, professor and the Peter M. Gerhart Distinguished Research Scholar at the School of Law, said he believes Cleveland’s invocation of the Modell Law, despite its legal vagueness, is a strategic negotiation tool to keep the Browns downtown. Chaffee noted Mayor Jusin Bibb is leveraging every tactic to complicate relocation efforts and pressure ownership, especially given the ongoing backlash against the Haslams.