On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Ruther v. Kaiser, 2012-Ohio-5686 . In a 6-1 opinion written by Justice Lanzinger, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the medical malpractice statute of repose. Justice McGee Brown wrote a short separate concurrence. Justice Pfeifer dissented. (No, this isn’t my…