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Update: read what happened on remand in this case here.
On November 7, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Boice v. Ottawa Hills, 2013-Ohio-4769. It is hard to say exactly what the issue is in this case. And the case has no syllabus. While the case was accepted as…
Update: On July 17, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis of that decision here.
On November 5, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Transtar Electric, Inc. v. A.E.M. Electric Services Corp., 2013-0148. At issue in this…
Update: Read a more thorough analysis of this merit decision here.
On November 5, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Cullen v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 2013-Ohio-4733. In this 5-2 decision written by Justice O’Donnell, in which Judge Matthew McFarland sat for Justice French and joined…
Further Update: on June 18, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Supreme Court of Ohio in this case. Read the analysis here.
Update: On October 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert. in this case, now captioned Ohio v. Clark. 13-1352.
On October 30, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a…
This post is meant as a companion piece to better understand the merit decision in State v. Clark, posted here.
Federal Precedent
In 2004, in Crawford v. Washington, a landmark opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court authored by Justice Scalia, the Court held that to meet the requirements of the Confrontation Clause, certain kinds…
Update: On July 17, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis of the decision here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here.
On November 5, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Transtar Electric, Inc. v. A.E.M.
Update: On January 16, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On October 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State v. Jeffrey McGlothan, 2012-1782. At issue in this case is what evidence is necessary to prove…
Update: On October 14, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On November 6, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Peggy Spaeth, et. al. v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company, 2012-1866. The issue is how…
Read what happened on remand in this case here.
On October 24, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Mortez v. Muakkassa, 2013-Ohio-4656. In a 5-2 decision written by Chief Justice O’Connor, the Court reversed a medical malpractice jury verdict for the plaintiffs on a number of evidentiary grounds. Justice…
On October 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Mahoning Edn. Ass’n. of Dev. Disabilities v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 2013-Ohio-4654. While the Court unanimously held that the union in this case had not committed an unfair labor practice, the court split 5-2 on the constitutional challenge to R.C.
