From gym memberships to baseball ticket season passes, COVID-19 has spawned several lawsuits throughout the country. One of many of these lawsuits has hit popular Ohio amusement park, Cedar Point.

In 2020, the park delayed its typical May opening after state-issued health orders kept amusement parks closed. Folks who purchased season passes before the pandemic hit were not happy and are demanding refunds.

One passholder, Laura Valentine filed a class-action lawsuit filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all who purchased season passes for 2020 and were seeking refunds.

In April of 2020, the park announced that all season passes purchased for 2020 will be honored for the park's 2021 season. The park reopened for season passholders in July of 2020 with pandemic restrictions. 

Meanwhile, Valentine's lawsuit was dismissed pointing to the terms and conditions of the passes. Valentine appealed to the Sixth District Court of Appeals, which overturned the trail court ruling. From there, Cedar Fair appealed to the state Supreme Court who accepted the case.

The company argues that passholders do not have absolute rights to access the park without limitations and that season passes "grant a revocable license" to the holder for admission "on any regularly scheduled operating day of the season."

The season pass does warn that operating dates and hours are subject to change without warning and all rides and attractions are subject to closings and cancelations for weather conditions and other factors.

Although passholders disagree and still believe they deserve a refund. Valentine acknowledged that the park was forced to close due to state mandates, but she also asserted that Cedar Fair can't keep the money passholders paid when they couldn't access the park for two whole months.

Nor can they remedy their breach of the contract by giving passholders access in 2021. Valentine maintains that passholders are entitled to the return of the pass purchase price  for the months that they were denied access to the park.

The court will hear four appeals on May 24 and four more cases including Valentine v. Cedar Fair on May 25.