Update: On November 5, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Is there no ability for the state to do something different than what the federal government has done?”

Justice French, to counsel for the News Agencies

“Do you have any problem with the

Update: On December 3, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Are you saying that’s the reason that the interview took place by the social worker, to be the shill for the police?”

Chief Justice O’Connor, to counsel for M.H.

“How do you discern

Update: On October 1, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“What does our precedent say about what those words mean, placing something in commerce?”

Justice French, to counsel for Stiner

“What is your response to opposing counsel’s argument that Amazon’s algorithm selected the

Update: On July 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Well the sequence is what I think is at play here.”

Chief Justice O’Connor, to counsel for the Cleveland Clinic

“What do you think should have happened on that Friday?”

Justice Stewart, to

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

“The index card cannot be rehabilitated by 2107. 24?”
Chief Justice O’Connor, to counsel for Terry Schaffer

“So, you are saying that the court, given the circumstances under which this notecard was executed, can

Update: On July 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Why isn’t it enough to say I would not have pled guilty if I knew I was going to be deported?”

Justice Stewart to the Assistant Prosecutor

“Is there anything that you have

Update: On May 27,2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Doesn’t a structural error have to be a constitutional error? Don’t we know from the U.S. Supreme Court that that this is not a constitutional error?”

Justice DeWine, to the Assistant County Public Defender

Update: On June 18,2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Why isn’t an in-camera inspection a safeguard enough?”

Justice Stewart, to counsel for Belinda Torres Friendenberg

“Did the trial court ever find that these records related ‘causally or historically’ to physical or mental injuries

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

“So, in this case the judge could say you (Jeffrey Rasawehr) can’t contact the petitioner, but any other restriction would have to be found to be libelous first?”

Justice DeWine, to counsel for

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

“So, in this case the judge could say you (Jeffrey Rasawehr) can’t contact the petitioner, but any other restriction would have to be found to be libelous first?”

Justice DeWine, to counsel for