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There are no oral arguments posted on the Court’s calendar past August 31, 2016. So, absent any emergency hearings, this week will be the last set of oral arguments heard by Justice Judy Lanzinger and Justice Paul Pfeifer, neither of whom can run for re-election because of the age limits in the Ohio Constitution.
The…
Update: On October 27, 2016, by a vote of 4-3, this case was dismissed as improvidently accepted. Voting to dismiss were Chief justice O’Connor, and Justices O’Donnell, Lanzinger and O’Neill. Justices Pfeifer, Kennedy, and French dissented.
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On August 31, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear…
Update: On November 2, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the case as improvidently allowed.
“You don’t run busses in Franklin County. You don’t have bus stops, you don’t have parking lots, you don’t have any of the essentials to a bus service?” Chief Justice O’Connor to counsel for GDRTA.
“You are familiar with…
Update: on October 5, 2016, the state’s motion for reconsideration was denied by a vote of 4-3. The same justices who dissented from the merit decision–Kennedy, French, and O’Donnell–would have granted reconsideration.
Merit Decision
On July 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mole, 2016-Ohio-5124. In…
Update: On November 2, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the case as improvidently allowed.
Read the analysis of the oral argument in this case here.
On August 17, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority v. State Employment Relations Board et…
On July 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mole, 2016-Ohio-5124. In a 4-3 opinion authored by Chief Justice O’Connor, joined in full by Justices Pfeifer and O’Neill, the court struck down R.C. 2907.03(A)(13) on its face, on equal protection grounds. The statute, a subsection of…
On July 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mole, 2016-Ohio-5124. In a 4-3 opinion authored by Chief Justice O’Connor, joined in full by Justices Pfeifer and O’Neill, the court struck down R.C. 2907.03(A)(13) on its face, on equal protection grounds. The statute, a subsection of…
Update: On December 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio, by a vote of 5-2, held that the children services agency properly followed the rules in refusing to place A.J. in substitute care with a relative. See, In re A.J., 2016-Ohio-0353
On August 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio was to hear oral argument…
Update: On December 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio, by a vote of 5-2, held that the children services agency properly followed the rules in refusing to place A.J. in substitute care with a relative. See, In re A.J., 2016-Ohio-0353
On August 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio was to hear oral argument…
Update: On August 24, 2016, Doss filed a notice of appeal from Judge Villaneuva’s decision.
Case Background.
On New Year’s Eve 2004, 23-year-old J.P. came from Ravenna to celebrate with friends at a club in Cleveland. She consumed a large number of alcoholic drinks throughout the night, and awoke the next morning in an unfamiliar…
