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On December 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State ex rel. Cincinnati Enquirer v. Deters, 2016-Ohio-8195.
In this mandamus action, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Lanzinger, in which Justice French concurred in judgment only, the court dismissed the complaint as to the relators who failed to…
On December 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Jackson, 2016-Ohio-8127. In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice O’Connor, in which Justice French concurred in judgment only, the court held that a hearing following a community-control revocation is a sentencing hearing, and an offender…
“It’s déjà vu all over again.” Yogi Berra.
On December 14, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Simpkins v. Grace Brethren Church 2016-Ohio-8118. At issue in the case was an as-applied constitutional challenge to the caps on noneconomic tort damages set out in R.C. 2315.18(B). In another fractured…
On December 12, 2016, by a vote of 6-2, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the cert. petition filed by Romell Broom in Broom v. Ohio. Justices Breyer and Kagan voted to grant the petition. Broom sought to overturn State v. Broom, 2016-Ohio-1028, a 4-3 decision in which the Supreme Court of Ohio held…
On December 13, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. V.M.D., 2016-Ohio-8090. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Pfeifer, the court held that attempted robbery is a crime of violence, and therefore a conviction for that offense cannot be judicially sealed. The case was argued September…
On December 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Ratonel v. Roetzel & Andress, L.P.A, 2016-Ohio-8013. In a 6-1 decision written by Justice Pfeifer, in which Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge Betsy Luper Schuster, sitting for Chief Justice O’Connor, dissented without opinion, the court held that summary…
Update: read what happened on remand in this case here.
On December 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Burnham v. Cleveland Clinic, Slip Opinion 2016-Ohio-8000. Oh my! Let me put it this way. Six justices agreed that the order compelling discovery in this particular case was final and…
Tax is totally not my field. But recognizing the significance of the decision in Crutchfield Corp. v. Testa, I asked my University of Cincinnati College of Law tax colleague Professor Stephanie Hunter McMahon to analyze the decision in the case. What follows is her superb guest post.
Guest Post on Crutchfield Corp. v. Testa…
Supreme Court justices are elected statewide in Ohio. Cincinnati, my hometown, hasn’t sent many justices to the Ohio high court in recent years, and now we are sending two. In the election for the two open seats being vacated by the retiring Justices Paul Pfeifer and Judy Lanzinger, First District Court of Appeals Judges Pat…
Update: Issa Kona’s lawyer, Joe Burke, reports that on the day the decision came out, the prosecutor called to tell him the case against Kona would now be dismissed.
On November 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Kona, 2016-Ohio-7796. In a 4-3 opinion written by Justice…
