aerial view of the law school, business school and East Bell Commons on the CWRU campus at dusk

Law’s Eric Chaffee discusses the “Art Modell Law”

Ohio AG Dave Yost, city of Cleveland file motions to dismiss Browns’ legal attempts to overturn ‘Modell Law’
WKYCEric Chaffee, professor and the Peter M. Gerhart Distinguished Research Scholar at the School of Law, discussed the “Art Modell Law,” a state law requiring Ohio teams in taxpayer-funded venues to offer locals purchase rights before relocating. This comes after the Haslam family—which owns the Cleveland Browns—threatened to move the team to Brook Park.