On December 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Ratonel v. Roetzel & Andress, L.P.A, 2016-Ohio-8013. In a 6-1 decision written by Justice Pfeifer, in which Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge Betsy Luper Schuster, sitting for Chief Justice O’Connor, dissented without opinion, the court held that summary

Update: On December 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

“Obviously, we’ve got more reading to do, because this appears to be a train wreck of almost Biblical proportions,” Acting Chief Justice Pfeifer, to both counsel at the end of the argument.

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