sentences:  Following appeals, these cases were combined into the Supreme Court case "Norwood v. Horney".In July 2006, the court found unanimously for the homeowners.Justice Maureen O'Connor (later Chief Justice) wrote the majority opinion, which ruled that economic benefit alone was insufficient to satisfy the eminent domain statute of the Ohio Constitution; that an Ohio statute allowing for the use of eminent domain seizures in the case of "deteriorating areas" was void for vagueness; and that the rest of this statute should remain in force.