Update: On May 11, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument in this case here.

On January 27, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Marcus H. Pryor II v.

On April 22, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Horn,  2015-Ohio-1484. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the court held that in a foreclosure action, while a plaintiff must have standing at the time suit is filed (this was the holding in

On April 22, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Horn,  2015-Ohio-1484. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the court held that in a foreclosure action, while a plaintiff must have standing at the time suit is filed (this was the holding in

Update: on April 22, 2015, the court unanimously dismissed this case as improvidently certified.

“Aren’t there rights of a mortgage holder to enforce a foreclosure independent of the note? We don’t want to recognize some new field of law and eliminate that right, do we?” Justice Terrence O’Donnell.

On February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court

Update: On September 24, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

On March 10, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Adam Stewart v. Board of Education of Lockland School District, 2014-0164. At issue in this case

Update: On September 24, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

On March 10, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Adam Stewart v. Board of Education of Lockland School District, 2014-0164. At issue in this case

Update: On April 22, 2015, this case was unanimously dismissed as improvidently certified.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of SRMOF 2009-1 Trust v. Shari Lewis et al, 2014-0485. At issue in this case is whether

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The Supreme Court of Ohio has now addressed the interplay between standing and subject matter jurisdiction in the context of foreclosure cases in both Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. v. Schwartzwald and Bank of America v. Kuchta. (Read the analysis of these cases here and here.)

Update: On April 22, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

On January 14, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Brian T. Horn, et. al., 2013-1534. The issue in this case

Update: Read what happened on remand here

On October 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State ex rel. Yeaples v. Gall, 2014-Ohio-4724. In a 6-1 opinion written by Chief Justice O’Connor, in which Justice Pfeifer concurred in judgment only and Justice O’Neill dissented, the court resolved