It’s safe to assume that when then-Ohio Gov. George Voinovich signed the so-called “Art Modell Law” in 1996, the possibility of the law being used against the Cleveland Browns wasn’t on anyone’s mind.

A toothless, untested, unenforceable piece of legislation that has no bearing on the team’s attempt to build a domed stadium in Brook Park after Huntington Bank Field’s (HBF) lease expires in 2028 (the Browns’ stance), or ...

The lawsuit comes just a few months after the Browns filed their own complaint challenging the constitutionality of the state law in federal court

The Cleveland Browns have responded to Mayor Justin Bibb’s letter invoking the “Modell Law” with a clear message: We’re ready to hash this out in court. Anthony White, who heads the Thompson Hine law firm that’s representing the Browns,

This week, the City of Cleveland (the City) and the State of Ohio (the State) took several key actions in the battle to prevent the Cleveland

The City of Cleveland has filed a case against the Cleveland Browns ownership after proposed departure from Huntington Bank Field.

The Browns never responded. RELATED: City of Cleveland enforcing Art Modell law to keep the Browns in downtown In the documents, the City of Cleveland accuses the Browns of “abandoning the City ...

The statue was passed by the Ohio General Assembly in 1996, a year after Art Modell moved the original Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore. The entire statute from the Ohio Revised Code reads as ...

Cleveland’s fight to keep the Browns from moving from downtown and into a proposed dome in the suburbs has taken yet another legal turn.

The Browns shall not pass. The city of Cleveland filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to prevent the NFL team’s move from their Lake Erie-front Huntington Bank Stadium to what would be a dome facility in suburban Brook Park — 15 miles south of the city in the same county, according to ESPN.

The Kielbasa Kid, Cuyahoga Jones and the Certain Ethnic TV Legend are gone: “Big Chuck” Schodowski, who spent more than five decades on Northeast Ohio television screens, has died at age 90. The lifelong Clevelander and longtime Hinckley resident co-hosted late night movies from 1966-2007 on WJW, interspersed with sketches he wrote and directed.

A FLAWED INTERVIEWING PROCESS by a flawed NFL franchise continues to play out in Lake Forest as the Bears' biff-Zoom-biff search for a new head coach plods on. Eventually, as prime candidates circle,