The Ohio Civil Rights Commission's Shall Endeavor Language Was a Mandatory Language.

The court ruled that the phrase, shall endeavor was mandatory language. It required the ohio civil rights commission to exhaust other means of eliminating an unlawful practice before it could initiate legal proceedings. The state wide preferences of the voters of ohio are not revealed by looking at the 13 out of 16 races won by republicans. Counting the percentage of state-wide election victories over the last ten years does not indicate the preferences of individual ohio voters.