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 ...

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

CLEVELAND, Ohio — 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.

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

To Case Western Reserve University law professor Eric Chaffee, there’s one big takeaway from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s decision to enter the battle between the Cleveland Browns and the City of Cleveland. “It means the state is willing to take a side here — and it does want the Browns to remain in Cleveland,” Chaffee said.

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 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 city has sued the team over the proposed move out of Cleveland to a domed stadium in Brook Park. The lawsuit arises under the Modell Law, which was enacted after the late Art Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore in 1996.

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 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 — Cleveland's fight to keep the ... who felt betrayed in 1995 when late owner Art Modell, unable to strike a deal with the city to get a new stadium, moved the franchise to Baltimore.