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There were three seats on the Supreme Court of Ohio up for grabs in Tuesday’s election. Justices Judy Lanzinger and Paul Pfeifer could not run again because of age, so those were open seats. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor had no opponent.
While the Republican dominance of the Supreme Court did not change with the election…
“Public policy…encourages all citizens to report crime and to come forward to aid law-enforcement officers during the investigation of those crimes. The tort of negligent misidentification would have a chilling effect on that public policy.”
Justice Sharon Kennedy.
On November 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Foley v.
On November 2, 2016, by a vote of 5-2, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed as improvidently accepted Greater Dayton Regional Transit Auth. v. State Emp. Relations Bd., Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-7559. Chief Justice O’Connor and Justices Lanzinger, Pfeifer, O’Neill, and O’Donnell voted to dismiss. Justices Kennedy and French dissented.
At issue in this…
Update: On July 5, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio again accepted an appeal of this case, and again remanded it back to the Ninth District. Read more about that here.
There just must be something about this case. It was pending in the Supreme Court of Ohio for over a year before it was…
“Therefore, this court and the United States Supreme Court agree that statutes of repose are to be read as enacted and not with an intent to circumvent legislatively imposed time limits.”
Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor
“This case moves us one step closer to the time when the common law will be completely obliterated in Ohio.”…
Case Background
Then 15 year old Tyshawn Barker was taken into custody by police near midnight for questioning in regard to two fatal shootings. Another suspect had implicated Barker in those crimes during questioning earlier in the evening.
The police detectives electronically recorded Barker’s interrogation. Before questioning Barker, the police read him his Miranda rights.…
When the Supreme Court of Ohio stopped hearing new cases on August 31, 2016, the blog published this list of submitted cases it has previewed and analyzed. All of these must be decided before Justices Lanzinger and Pfeifer retire at year’s end. There are other submitted cases; this is just the blog’s list:
In re:…
Former Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter should know more than most about Ohio voting rights. When she ran for juvenile court in November of 2010, she appeared to have lost to her opponent John Williams by about 2800 votes. But then it came to light that certain provisional ballots had not been counted…
Update: On September 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied Prade’s motion for a writ of prohibition, in which Prade had argued the Ninth District Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review and overturn a finding of actual innocence by then-Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Judy Hunter, who has since retired. On September…
Update: On September 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied Prade’s motion for a writ of prohibition, in which Prade had argued the Ninth District Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review and overturn a finding of actual innocence by then-Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Judy Hunter, who has since retired. On September…
