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Further update: Read what happened on remand here.
On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Moore, 2016-Ohio-8288. In a 4-3 opinion written by now-retired Justice Paul Pfeifer, the court held that a term-of-years prison sentence imposed on a juvenile non-homicide offender that exceeds the…
Further update: Read what happened on remand here.
On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Moore, 2016-Ohio-8288. In a 4-3 opinion written by now-retired Justice Paul Pfeifer, the court held that a term-of-years prison sentence imposed on a juvenile non-homicide offender that exceeds the…
Update: On July 18, 2017, 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 June 21, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of In the Matter of: The Adoption of P.L.H.…
Update: On October 26, 2017, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“But presumably there is a partner here who was uninformed and deprived of the right to make that decision. Is that not sufficient consideration for the state under the rational basis test to impose this…
On May 25, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted reconsideration in State v. Aalim, 2017-Ohio-2956, and this time has upheld the mandatory juvenile transfer statutes it struck down December 22, 2016, in State v. Aalim, 2016-Ohio-8278.
Case Background
A complaint was filed in juvenile court against then 16-year-old Matthew Aalim, alleging…
Update: On February 7, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On May 16, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Don Koprivec et al. v. Rails-to-Trails of Wayne County, 2016-0704. This case was accepted on jurisdictional appeal…
Update: Read the analysis of the new merit decision here.
Oh my. The court has granted reconsideration in State v. Aalim, 2017-Ohio-2956, and this time has upheld the mandatory juvenile transfer statutes it struck down December 22, 2016, in State v. Aalim, 2016-Ohio-8278. This post is just a brief announcement of this…
On May 22, 2017, by a vote of 5-2, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed Rush v. Univ. of Cincinnati Physicians, Inc.,2017-Ohio-2896 as improvidently accepted. The issue in the case was whether an employee needs to be joined in a medical negligence action in order to establish respondeat superior liability for the employer…
Update: On January 4, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Can’t we infer that the court assented to what counsel said by virtue of silence on the part of the court?”
Justice O’Donnell, to the prosecutor
On May 16, 2017, the Supreme Court…
Update: Joshua Polk was indicted for a felony count of possessing a firearm in a school safety zone. On March 8, 2018, Polk, who had served ten days in jail for this offense, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted possession of a firearm in a school zone. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas…
