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A fast food drive through in Columbus is closed due to a lack of workers.
A Franklin County judge has ruled against reinstating $300 weekly pandemic unemployment checks for Ohioans out of work. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ended the additional federal assistance prematurely last month.
The judge said the law is clear that DeWine wasn’t obligated to continue the program for around 200,000 Ohioans.
Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who represents the unemployed workers, said he’s already asked the Tenth District Court of Appeals to review Judge Michael Holbrook’s ruling.
“We think he read the law wrong, Dann said. We think the Tenth District might read it differently.
Updated: 8:22 PM EDT July 29, 2021
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio A Franklin County judge denied extending the $300 weekly federal benefit in Ohio on Thursday.
Gov. Mike DeWine ended the extra payments from Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on June 26.
The FPUC was part of the CARES Act to help Americans who were struggling with unemployment during the pandemic.
Had Franklin County Pleas Court Judge Michael Holbrook passed a preliminary injunction, the case would have been sent to the 10th District Court of Appeals. After that, it would have went to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Columbus-based law firm DannLaw said in a release it will file a Notice of Appeal and will ask the 10th District Court to take the case up on an emergency basis.
Unemployed single mom: The economy is not booming for everybody
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Pandemic unemployment benefits must restart in Arkansas while a lawsuit works its way through the court system
By Tami Luhby, CNN
Pandemic unemployment benefits must restart in Arkansas while a lawsuit works its way through the court system, a state judge ruled in a decision filed Thursday.
On the same day, an Ohio state judge denied a similar request to restore the $300 weekly pandemic supplement to jobless residents while he considers the case.
Courts in Maryland and Indiana recently nixed governors’ orders to cease the benefits early, restoring payments to hundreds of thousands of people in those states.