Update: On April 22, 2015, 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 January 14, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Brian T. Horn…

On December 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Pixley v. Pro-Pak Industries, Inc., 2014-Ohio-5460. There were two issues in this employer intentional tort case–whether the definition of equipment safety guard is limited to protecting only operators of equipment, and whether there is a genuine issue of material…

Update: This case was sent back for resentencing. Read what happened on remand here.

On December 3, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Herring, 2014-Ohio-5228. In a 4-3 opinion written by Justice Paul Pfeifer, the court granted Herring’s petition for post-conviction relief in this death penalty…

Case Background

In 2004, Charles Ralston was hired as a helper at a wastewater treatment plant owned and operated by the city of North Ridgeville. Though Ralston had a criminal record, at his interview and on his employment application, he was asked only if he had any prior felony convictions. Unbeknownst to the city, Ralston…

Update: On July 26, 2016, Doss was found not to be a wrongfully-imprisoned person. Read more about that here.

Case Background.

In 2006, Iran Doss was convicted of kidnapping and rape, and sentenced to four years in prison. Ultimately, the Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, and ordered Doss released from prison.

Upon…

Now retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote this in her separate concurrence in the landmark case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, the 2002 decision that changed the landscape in judicial elections by giving judges and judicial candidates more free speech (and some say unwisely so):

“ I am concerned…

An interview with Ohio’s Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and AP reporter Andrew Welch-Huggins, which ran in a number of Ohio newspapers last week, carried the headline “Ohio Chief Justice: Time to Rethink Judicial Elections.” The story quotes O’Connor as saying that because nearly 70% of the judicial races (69% in this election cycle) are uncontested,…

On November 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Johnson, 2014-Ohio-5021. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Terrence O’Donnell, in which Justices Paul Pfeifer and Judy Lanzinger concurred in judgment only, the court held that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule precluded suppression of…