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Update: On October 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analsyis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here.
On April 24, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Mahoning Education Association of Developmental Disabilities v. State…
Newly elected Justice Bill O’Neill likely raised a few eyebrows when he dissented from the Court’s setting of an execution date for convicted killer Jeffrey Wogenstahl. O’Neill heard no aspect of this case. He made it clear that he expressed no opinion on the merits of Wogenstahl’s guilt or innocence, and made a point of…
On October 24, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in Liming v. Damos, 2012-Ohio-4783. The Court had accepted the case on conflict certification and discretionary review and consolidated the two cases, argued May 23, 2012. In a 5-2 decision written by Justice Lanzinger, the Court held that a purge hearing to…
On October 24, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in Liming v. Damos, 2012-Ohio-4783. The Court had accepted the case on conflict certification and discretionary review and consolidated the two cases, argued May 23, 2012. In a 5-2 decision written by Justice Lanzinger, the Court held that a purge hearing to…
Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On September 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State v. Damaad Gardner, 2011-2134. The issue in this case is whether an outstanding arrest warrant deprives the…
On Oct. 4, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. D.W.,2012-Ohio-4544. (when the case was originally briefed and calendared, the caption included the full name of the defendant. Effective July 1, 2012, initials are now required in the caption and body of published decisions involving juveniles). The case…
Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument in this case here.
On September 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State v. Damaad Gardner, 2011-2134. This…
The case of Houdek et al. v. ThyssenKrupp Materials, NA, 2011-1076 is all about the employer intentional tort, as if any more could be said about this topic. To paraphrase President Ronald Reagan, here we go again.
Let’s start with some very basic fundamentals, probably known to all (but as a law professor I can’t…
Read the update on the fate of this mandamus action here.
On April 18, Tom Niehaus, President of the Ohio Senate, and Lou Blessing, a State Representative and Speaker Pro Tem, filed an original action in mandamus in the Supreme Court of Ohio against Secretary of State Jon Husted challenging a Consent Decree (“NEOCH…
Update: On June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states cannot impose a mandatory life sentence with no possiblity of parole upon juvenile offenders involved in homicide offenses. The 5-to-4 decision came in the companion cases of Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs. This decision follows the 2010 precedent in Graham …
