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Update: On February 12, 2014, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On October 9, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Estate of Timothy Oeding et. al. v. David Fraley dba Fraley Trucking, 2013-1994. (Why the caption of this…
Update: On February 12, 2014, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument of this case here.
On October 9, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Estate of Timothy Oeding et. al. v.
Update: On May 14, 2014 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument in this case here.
On October 9, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Oaktree Condominium Association, Inc. v.
Last week I was at the Ohio Judicial Conference to give my annual presentation on the most important cases from the Supreme Court of Ohio this past year. I attended Chief Justice O’Connor’s annual State of the Judiciary Address, which you can watch here. Most of the speech was a recapitulation of and progress report…
Update: Read what happened on remand here.
On September 5, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Ricks, 2013-Ohio-3712. The issue was whether it was proper in this case to admit a non-testifying accomplice’s out-of-court statements through the testimony of an investigating police officer. Although the Court…
Update: For those of you who missed this, you can watch the webcast at this link:
http://www.uc.edu/ucit/digitalvideo/law_08272013.html
Yes, I know this is a blog about the Supreme Court of Ohio. But next Tuesday, August 27, there is such an exciting program sponsored by the University of Cincinnati College of Law that I wanted to share…
Well, I begin teaching a new crop of law students today, and the Supreme Court of Ohio resumes oral arguments tomorrow, which means the blog will crank back up again. See this post about the cases the blog has previewed and analyzed that are still under submission.
For those of you who may be new…
As I’m sure my readers already know, Ohio elects all of its judges—from Municipal Court to the Ohio Supreme Court. Why? Our state constitution has required this since 1851. And all judicial terms are six years. Presently, the only requirement to become a judge is to have practiced law in Ohio for six years, and…
Update: read what happened when this case was remanded here.
On July 17, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Lalain, 2013-Ohio-3093. The case was accepted on both conflict certification and discretionary appeal. In a 5-2 decision written by Justice O’Donnell, for himself and Justices Pfeifer, Kennedy,…
On July 18, 2013, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in Leopold v. Ace Doran Hauling & Rigging Co., 2013-Ohio-3107. By a 4-3 vote, the Court held that the physician-patient privilege, codified at R.C. 2317.02, does not protect medical records that a patient has previously disclosed in previous litigation from the…
