On Jan. 1, Ohio can start transferring as much as $1.9B in unclaimed funds into a new fund, from which the state will pay $600M toward the Cleveland Browns’ new domed stadium in Brook Park. But a federal judge ruled the lawsuit over the plan can continue.

U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. heard arguments in the lawsuit over the proposal to move unclaimed funds the state has held since 2016 into the Ohio Cultural and Sports Facility Performance Grant Fund, which was created in the state budget signed earlier this year. The $600 million the state pledged to the "transformational major sports facility mixed-use project" in Brook Park that will be the home of the Cleveland Browns will come from that fund.

Sargus ruled the transfer of the funds can go on as scheduled on Jan. 1, but he a

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