Update: On May 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“…so why didn’t you file a motion to compel or some sort of activity to bring it to the court’s attention that they were not cooperating with discovery the way they should…?”

Chief

Update: On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“But you just keep telling me why it’s (the trial court decision’s) wrong—tell me why it’s a final order?”

Justice DeWine, to Carol Thomasson’s counsel

“Does the appointment of the GAL preclude your

Update: On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“But you just keep telling me why it’s (the trial court decision’s) wrong—tell me why it’s a final order?”

Justice DeWine, to Carol Thomasson’s counsel

“Does the appointment of the GAL preclude your

Update: On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On November 21, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Charles W. Thomasson v. Carol J. Thomasson, 2016-1629

Case Background

Seth Cromer died at the age of five while a patient at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron. Seth’s parents brought him to the emergency room of the hospital on the evening of January 13, 2007 with an ear infection that worsened into a secondary infection.  He died the next day in

Update: On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read an analysis here.

On September 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in Preterm-Cleveland, Inc. v. Governor John R. Kasich et al, 2016-1252. The issue in this case is whether Preterm-Cleveland Inc. has

Update: On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read an analysis here.

On September 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in Preterm-Cleveland, Inc. v. Governor John R. Kasich et al, 2016-1252. The issue in this case is whether Preterm-Cleveland Inc. has

Update: On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read an analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On September 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Preterm-Cleveland, Inc. v. Governor John R. Kasich et al, 2016-1252. The

Update: On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.  Read more about that here.

“I’m asking you for a theory, why is UC Physicians, the employer of all the doctors in anesthesiology there, why are they not liable?”

Justice O’Neill, to defense counsel.

On May 3, 2017, the

Update: On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.  Read more about that here.

“I’m asking you for a theory, why is UC Physicians, the employer of all the doctors in anesthesiology there, why are they not liable?”

Justice O’Neill, to defense counsel.

On May 3, 2017, the