Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal .

Attorneys leading a class action lawsuit against Ohio’s new stadium funding plan have thrown their weight behind a case out of California. They’ve filed an amicus brief, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging how California handles abandoned funds.

In the most recent state budget, Ohio lawmakers devised a system to use private citizens’ unclaimed funds to pay for a new Cleveland Browns stadium. Lawmakers earmarked $1 million for outreach, but there’s no explicit requirement for officials to notify individual owners before their property gets transferred.

Attorneys Jeff Crossman and Marc Dann see parallels in California’s unclaimed funds program.

“The idea that the government can tak

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