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The way Cleveland taxes professional athletes who work for short periods of time in the city is unconstitutional because it violates athletes' due process rights, the Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday. The city unfairly imposed a 2 percent income tax on ex-Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer based on games played in the city as a percentage of total games played, the ruling said. Cleveland's method reached ''beyond its power to tax,'' Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger said. In a related ruling, the court said retired Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday shouldn't have been taxed at all by Cleveland during the 2008 season because he was injured and not in the city.
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