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Update: On December 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Update: On May 26, 2020, the Court issued this order requesting supplemental briefing in this case:

Sua sponte, parties ordered to file supplemental briefs addressing the following issues: (1) whether R.C. 2941.51(D) authorizes…

On December 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Jones,  2019-Ohio-5159. In a decision written by Justice Stewart, the Court held that a dog need not be previously designated as “dangerous” before the owner can be prosecuted under R.C. 955.22(D) for failing to confine a dangerous…

Update: On April 14, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

“Where is it in the record that we can glean that the trial court determined that he (Miller) understood those rights?”

Judge Sadler, to the Assistant Prosecuting Attorney

“Don’t you think really in…

“There is no need to turn suppression issues into a gotcha game, where the state may sit on its hands in the trial court and then pull out a surprise, standing card on appeal.”

Justice DeWine, Majority Opinion

On December 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v.

Update: On April 16, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

“The only issue we have is whether he had notice, correct?”

Justice DeWine to the Assistant Public Defender

“I’m asking, between January and April, was that his fault that he wasn’t in a

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Update: On June 9, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On December 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of LRC Realty, Inc. v. B.E.B. Properties New Par…

Update: On April 14, 2020 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 December 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Shawn M. Miller, 2018-0948. At issue…

Update: On April 16, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

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

On December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in In re A.W., A Minor Child, 2018-1182. At…

Update: On December 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the argument here.

On December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Robert Taylor, 2018-1315. At issue in this…

“Taken together, these three considerations—the banks having lost something in which they had a property interest at the moment of the crime, the banks bearing the economic loss by operation of statute, and the banks having been the targets of Allen’s crimes—establish that the banks are victims under any common-sense understanding of that term.”

Justice…