Amish Injunction Against Flashing Light Law Goes to Hearing Today in Hardin County
A hearing to consider the Amish communities’ filing for an injunction of an Ohio law which mandates the use of flashing yellow lights atop horse-drawn buggies will be held today in Hardin County Common Pleas Court.
The case was filed in August of 2024 and challenges Ohio’s H.B. 30 (2022).
A hearing was held in late November of that year, and Judge Steve Christopher granted a temporary restraining order.
Four men from West Salem, Apple Creek, Dalton and Kenton are the plaintiffs in the case.
Listed as defendants are Ohio Attorney General David Yost, Prosecutors from Hardin, Medina and Wayne Counties and Ohio State Highway Patrol Superintendent Charles A. Jones.
The suit challenges the constitutionality of the law.
The plaintiffs claim it targets the Amish community and has effectively criminalized travel for the Old Order Amish denominations, whose adherents cannot use the electric lights without violating their religious beliefs.
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