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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to reject Cuyahoga County’s extreme reproduction fees for electronic real estate records. The friend-of-the-court brief argues that the imposition of six-figure fees to access electronic real estate records will dramatically curtail valuable public-interest reporting on the Ohio real estate market.
Skynet Corp. can continue to maintain its Web site, in which homeowners in New Hampshire and elsewhere can list their houses for a fee, without a broker’s license.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge James Muirhead held March 31 that the site was covered under the media exception to a New Hampshire law, which requires any company that charges money or advertises real estate to have a license.
