Opinion ID: 4537099
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Text: {¶ 2} In 2006, the General Assembly passed legislation authorizing boards of revision to adjudicate tax-foreclosure actions involving abandoned land. See 2006 Sub.H.B. No. 294, 151 Ohio Laws, Part IV, 7334. These proceedings are designed to be an expeditious alternative to conventional judicial foreclosures. See R.C. 323.67(B)(1) and (C). Among other things, the law allows a board of revision, under certain circumstances, to order the sheriff to transfer property directly to a county landreutilization corporation (or some other statutorily eligible political subdivision), without the need for an appraisal and public auction. R.C. 323.65(J), 323.71(A)(1), 323.73(G), 323.78. {¶ 3} In June 2017, respondent Cuyahoga County Board of Revision (“BOR”) entered a judgment of foreclosure concerning real property owned by relator, Elliott G. Feltner. After its judgment, the BOR transferred Feltner’s property to the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (“the Land Bank”) under R.C. 323.78. The Land Bank later transferred the property to a third party. {¶ 4} More than a year later, Feltner filed this original action, asserting multiple prohibition and mandamus claims against the BOR, its members,1 the Cuyahoga County treasurer, Cuyahoga County, the Land Bank, and the Attorney General. We previously dismissed the Cuyahoga County treasurer, Cuyahoga County, the Land Bank, and the Attorney General as parties. 155 Ohio St.3d 1403, 2019-Ohio-943, 119 N.E.3d 431. But we granted an alternative writ of prohibition as to two of the claims 1. The members of the BOR are respondents Armond Budish, Michael Gallagher, and Michael Chambers, who is substituted automatically for former board member Dennis G. Kennedy as a party to this action. S.Ct.Prac.R. 4.06(B). 2 January Term, 2020 against the BOR and its members. Id. Those claims present the question whether the statutes under which the BOR proceeded violate the separation-of-powers doctrine or the due-process clauses of the United States and Ohio Constitutions. {¶ 5} The case is now ripe for our final determination.