Cox v. Ohio Dept. of Transportation

In Cox v. Ohio Dept. of Transportation (1981), 67 Ohio St. 2d 501, 424 N.E.2d 597, the high court created a rule of law to ipso facto prevent a void in the statutory law without the need to resort to construing the specific language of the act or legislative intent. In the absence of express language creating a hiatus in the statutory law, a legislative act presumptively maintains a statutory framework. Accordingly, on the authority of Cox, this Court holds that the juvenile court was not without statutory authority in November 2007 to conduct an adjudicatory hearing." Id. at P15.