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“It violates an adult’s right to due process to treat the adult as an incompetent and to deprive that adult of his or her autonomy without an adjudication that the adult is incompetent and without prior notice and an opportunity to be heard on the issue of his or her competency.”
Justice Fischer, majority opinion…
Update: On November 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
I asked Professor Stephanie Hunter McMahon, who teaches tax at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, if she would give her impressions of the oral argument in the case of Cincinnati Reds…
“So what did the officer testify he was searching for?”
“Would you agree that theoretically an officer’s probable cause could evolve? It could change?”
Justice French, to Vega’s counsel.
On June 12, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State of Ohio…
Update: This case was remanded back to the Eighth District Court of Appeals to decide the unaddressed assignments of error. On August 30, 2018, the appeals court overruled both of the remaining assignments of error and upheld the conviction and sentence. Read more here.
On June 7, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down…
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On June 12, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Edwin A. Vega, 2017-0618. The main issue in the case is whether a police officer may, during a search for raw marijuana after an initial…
My two senior student contributors, Jefferson Kisor and Kristen Elia, have now graduated, and are studying for the bar exam. I want to thank them both for the excellent work they have done on the blog, and wish them well in their legal careers. Jefferson is headed to Thompson Hine; Kristen to Frost Brown Todd.…
Update: On August 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“What was it that the trust did that aided the seller in making the sale?”
Justice O’Donnell, to counsel for the Investors
On May 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral…
Update: On August 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“What was it that the trust did that aided the seller in making the sale?”
Justice O’Donnell, to counsel for the Investors
On May 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral…
*This guest post was co-authored by Professor Michael Solimine and Kristen Elia. Professor Solimine is the Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has written extensively on the topic of standing and civil procedure, and was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief filed on behalf of…
On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio held the license of Capital Care Network of Toledo, Northwest Ohio’s last remaining abortion clinic, was properly revoked by the Ohio Department of Health for failure to have an appropriate written transfer agreement with a hospital. Read an analysis of that decision here.
Shortly after this…
