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State Issue One, the legislatively-referred proposal to amend the Ohio Constitution to raise the age at which a judge could run for or be appointed to a judicial office from 70 to 75 was overwhelmingly defeated, despite the strong endorsement from Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and most of the state’s newspapers.
Curiously, the measure was…
Update: read the post about Judge Dlott’s Feb 8 2012 opinion about this race here.
Who would have thought that with the 2011 elections now over, the November 2, 2010 Hamilton County juvenile court election between John Williams and Tracie Hunter would still be undecided?
But this September, Judge Karla Grady, administrative and senior judge…
For those interested in the question of at what age a judge should retire, Judge Pat Fischer of the First District Court of Appeals and I discussed this on Dan Hurley’s Newsmakers program on Local 12 Sunday October 23. Link is below–
http://www.law.uc.edu/news/issue-one-bettman
Read my earlier post on this topic here.
In State v. Johnson, Justice Lanzinger asked whether the Ohio Constitution provides greater protection than the federal constitution requires. What did she mean by that? Let’s look at that In Sharper Focus.
In 1975, in Oregon v. Hass, 420 U.S. 714 (1975) the U.S. Supreme Court urged states to expand their constitutional doctrines to…
In State v. Johnson, Justice Lanzinger asked whether the Ohio Constitution provides greater protection than the federal constitution requires. What did she mean by that? Let’s look at that In Sharper Focus.
In 1975, in Oregon v. Hass, 420 U.S. 714 (1975) the U.S. Supreme Court urged states to expand their constitutional doctrines to…
Death penalty decisions from the Ohio Supreme Court are long, depressing, and different. Long because the defendants raise every conceivable argument they can, even if the issues they raise have been decided many times. Depressing because of the facts and circumstances of the cases and the horror involved. Different because there is no denying it—a…
Death penalty decisions from the Ohio Supreme Court are long, depressing, and different. Long because the defendants raise every conceivable argument they can, even if the issues they raise have been decided many times. Depressing because of the facts and circumstances of the cases and the horror involved. Different because there is no denying it—a…
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the accused in criminal cases the right to confront witnesses against them. The U.S. Supreme Court has written a series of cases on this subject. Justice Antonin Scalia has been the leader of the strict confrontation clause jurisprudence that has evolved since. The most recent case, Bullcoming …
In the upcoming November election, most of the spotlight has been on two very controversial statewide ballot issues–a referendum to overturn S.B. 5, the new collective bargaining law that greatly restricts the rights of public employees, and a constitutional amendment aimed at allowing Ohioans to opt out of the federal health care reform mandate that…
In the upcoming November election, most of the spotlight has been on two very controversial statewide ballot issues–a referendum to overturn S.B. 5, the new collective bargaining law that greatly restricts the rights of public employees, and a constitutional amendment aimed at allowing Ohioans to opt out of the federal health care reform mandate that…
