Supreme Court of Ohio Decisions 2022

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the payment of a civil fine for a traffic violation under a city's automated traffic enforcement program without a dispute of liability for the violation precludes those improperly ticketed…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court rejecting Defendant's amended petition for postconviction relief without holding a hearing, holding that the trial…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court declining to declare Plaintiff a wrongfully imprisoned person, holding that the court of appeals did not err in…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute over whether Ohio Power Company, a private agency authorized to appropriate property under Ohio Rev. Code 163.01(B) and (C), was entitled to any of the necessary presumptions set forth in Ohio Rev. Code…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving a dispute about a statute that sets forth the requirements a firm must meet to provide engineering services in the state of Ohio the Supreme Court held that there is nothing in the statutory…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the trial court's denial of Greenville's motion to dismiss this tort case, holding that Plaintiffs alleged sufficient facts that, if proven,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the order of the trial court granting restitution to the victims of Defendant's theft, holding that, although the victims should be compensated…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals and reinstated the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Owners Insurance Co. on EMOI Services, LLC's claim of breach of contract and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the portion of the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Appellant's conviction on count twenty-nine of the indictment and vacated that conviction and affirmed the portion of the judgment…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Ohio Rev. Code 2929.14(C)(4) requires trial courts to consider the overall number of consecutive sentences and the aggregate sentence to be imposed when making the necessity and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Defendant's sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Ohio Const. art. I, 9 when he was convicted as a…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a three-year prison term imposed under Ohio Rev. Code 2950.99(A)(2)(b) is to be imposed "in addition to" any prison term imposed under "any other provision of law," including a sentence…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court granting summary judgment for employees of a children's services agency and dismissing the wrongful death action…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that use and development and alienation restrictions in a deed applied to both the surface and subsurface of the properties at issue in this case…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the order of the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of the Rootstown Township Board of Trustees and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the the court of appeals affirming the trial court's denial of Defendant's motion to suppress evidence recovered as a result of a constitutionally-defective search warrant,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus sought by Waste Management of Ohio, Inc. ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to reverse its decision granting T.A.'s…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals ruling that the state's rebuttal of a defendant's claim of self-defense is not subject to review under the sufficiency-of-the-evidence standard, holding…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Defendant's request to enter a plea of no contest on the ground that the court did not…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals determining that Karen Michael held an equitable lien on David Miller's Ram Sensors, Inc. stock shares securing David's current obligation to pay monthly…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the compensatory-damages caps for noneconomic loss in Ohio Rev. Code 2315.18 were unconstitutionally applied to Plaintiff, who was sexually abused by Defendant when she was a child. A jury…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals determining that Ohio Rev. Code 2152.84(A)(2)(b) was fundamentally unfair as applied to D.R., the juvenile in this case, and thus violated his right to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that if an offender who is on community control is convicted and imprisoned for a new offense, the revocation proceeding in the original case may not result in a prison sentence that runs…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction for three abduction charges, holding that the State erred in failing to provide Defendant with a bill of particulars in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court denying Defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea, holding that Defendant had a reasonable and legitimate…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part a writ of mandamus requested by Relator, an inmate at the Trumbull Correctional Institution, against Respondents, including Anthony Davis, (collectively, TCI) seeking…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's sentences in connection with his conviction for robbery, kidnapping, abduction and rape, holding that the plain error doctrine was not…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the original action filed by Appellant seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the trial court to permit Appellant to independently test a certain…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction and sentence for felonious assault, holding that the court of appeals erred in determining that the State lacked standing…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that the trial court committed harmless error by not holding a competency hearing after one was requested by Defendant's counsel prior to trial,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered in the negative a certified question regarding whether a provision in a commercial insurance policy, governed by Ohio law, providing coverage for a "direct 'loss'" to certain property covers a…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that Ohio Rev. Code 2953.08(D)(3) was not unconstitutional for precluding appellate review of a sentence for aggravated murder and reversed the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court in favor of Appellee on his claims for conversion and unjust enrichment, holding that the trial court erred in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that an offender must receive separate prison terms for multiple firearm specifications when the criminal offenses to which those firearm specifications were attached had been merged as allied…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a column heading in a schedule contained in a township zoning resolution was substantive and must be read as part of a resolution especially when the heading contains a term that is defined in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals upholding that decision of the trial court to deny Defendant's motion to suppress evidence discovered after a traffic stop, holding that there was no…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the trial court to deny Appellant's petition for postconviction relief, holding that, under the circumstances of this case, the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals' decision reversing the trial court's judgment for Plaintiff after denying the motion for summary judgment filed by Defendant, the manufacturing company Johns Manville,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals remanding to the probate court this matter involving a biological father (K.W.), who wanted to parent his child but did not preserve his right to do so…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the trial court to grant Ohio History Connection's appropriation action seeking to appropriate the Moundbuilders Country Club…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's conviction for tampering with records in violation of Ohio Rev. Code 2913.42(A)(1), holding that the rule of absolute privilege, also…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the order of the Public Utilities Commission authorizing a recovery mechanism referred to as the solar-generation-fund rider (Rider SGF), holding that remand to the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court dismissing rape charges against Defendant due to prejudicial preindictment delay, holding that Defendant failed to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that, by its plain language, the four-year statute of repose, Ohio Rev. Code 2305.15(A), tolls the medical-claim statute of repose, Ohio Rev. Code 23.05.113(C), and therefore, the statute of repose…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the the trial court's decision ordering $1,615 in restitution for lost wages of the victim after Defendant pleaded guilty to two fifth-degree…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions and sentence for three counts of aggravated murder, six counts of aggravated robbery and other crimes and his sentence of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the juvenile court to transfer Appellant to adult court, holding that that court's decision to transfer Appellant to adult court…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court denying Appellant's petition for postconviction DNA testing, holding that the postconviction DNA testing sought by…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a negligent credentialing is a separate and independent claim from medical negligence but that a negligent credentialing claim cannot proceed without either a simultaneous or prior…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the trial court's award of summary judgment and attorney fees to Plaintiff in this case, holding that plaintiffs alleging violations of Ohio's…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals upholding Defendant's conviction of felony murder for a one-punch homicide, holding that Defendant failed to establish that his trial counsel provided…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for aggravated murder and his sentence of death, holding that, while error occurred in this case in the form of repetitive crime scene photos, the prosecutor's…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Netflix Inc. and Hulu, LLC (together, Defendants) were not video-service providers under the Fair Competition in Cable Operations Act, Ohio Rev. Code 1332.21 (the Act) and that the Act did not…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Walmart, Inc. ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to reverse its decision awarding Dianna Hixson temporary total disability (TTD) compensation on the basis of…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this original action involving a dispute between Relator, Lake County Clerk of Courts Faith Andrews, and Respondents, the seven judges of the Lake County Court of Common Pleas, the Supreme Court granted a writ of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions, entered upon his guilty plea, for involuntary manslaughter, having weapons while under a disability, and aggravated riot,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals holding that a person adjudicated a juvenile delinquent may not reopen his or her direct appeal from the adjudication based on a claim of ineffective…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's convictions and remanding the matter for a new trial, holding that the trial court did not violate Defendant's Sixth Amendment right…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals holding that the failure to have satisfied a condition of community control prevents a defendant from receiving a final discharge even after community…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that in order to compel arbitration against a union employee, the claim must have been clearly and unmistakably waived in arbitration provisions in the collective-bargaining agreement (CBA)…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the trial court's summary judgment in favor of Heights Chiropractic Physicians, LLC, for the negligence of its employee, chiropractor Don Bisesi,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed in part the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) affirming a final assessment imposed by the tax commissioner determining that NASCAR owed taxes, interest, and penalties in the amount of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals determining that one need not be prejudiced to be an "adversely affected" party, as that phrase is used in Ohio Rev. Code 119.12(I), holding that the phrase…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals granting a writ of mandamus ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to reverse its decision awarding Appellant temporary-total-disability (TTD)…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals denying Appellant's petitions for postconviction relief challenging his convictions in a rape case and a jail case, holding that there was no error. After…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court denying Appellant's motion for leave to file a motion for a new trial and a successive petition for postconviction…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of mandamus against Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews (the Baker firm), Public Entity Risk Services of Ohio…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint seeking an order prohibiting the general division judge from exercising further authority over some of the claims in the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against the warden of the Richland Correctional Institution, holding that Petitioner failed to attach his commitment papers, as required by Ohio…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the judgments of the juvenile court granting permanent custody of three children to the Butler County Department of Job and Family Services -…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction for attempted aggravated murder, holding that the statute of limitations for attempted aggravated murder and attempted…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied as moot a writ of mandamus requested by Relator compelling the City of Toledo to provide him with copies of public records and to pay statutory damages under Ohio's Public Records Act, Ohio Rev.…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the trial court's denial of Defendant's motion to dismiss the criminal case against him based on an alleged violation of his statutory…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition seeking a writ of prohibition to halt an ongoing appropriation case in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas, holding that Petitioner failed to establish that he was…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus compelling Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to allow Relator to appoint election observers to inspect the counting of votes and compelling LaRose to provide election…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals in this matter involving the 1882 transfer of property known today as Wade Park located in the city of Cleveland, holding that the Marketable Title Act…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the delayed opening of an amusement park owned by Defendant caused by the government-mandated shutdown imposed by the state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic did not, by itself, establish a…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus compelling the city of Cleveland to disclose use-of-force (UOF) reports on the grounds that UOF reports are exempt from…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for aggravated murder with death specifications and her sentence of death, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on her allegations of error. On appeal,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals vacating the trial court's judgment finding Defendant guilty of various sex crimes and remanding the case for a new trial without the testimony of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against the warden of the Lake Erie Correctional Institution, holding that the court of appeals…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction of disclosing confidential information in violation of Ohio Rev. Code 102.03(B), holding that a person who is subject to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Appellant's petition was moot. Appellant pleaded no contest to several…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of mandamus against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), holding that the court of appeals…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Defendant was properly sentenced for murder and that the failure of a sentencing entry to track precisely the language of the applicable criminal sentencing statutes does not render the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals determining that the evidence should have been suppressed in the underlying criminal case based on a statutory violation, holding that there was no…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing Appellant's mandamus complaint under Civ.R. 12(B)(6) for failure to state a claim upon which mandamus relief can be granted, holding that the court…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that prevailing parties who were awarded reasonable attorney fees and punitive damages in a tort case involving malicious conduct may not also…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part writs of mandamus and prohibition against Ronald P. Forsthoefel, a judge on the Ashland County Common Pleas Court, barring Judge Forsthoefel from enforcing his order sealing the…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this civil suit against Ottawa County, an uncharted county, the Supreme Court held that the County was not sui juris and therefore must be sued in the name of its board of commissioners. Plaintiff filed a complaint…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the trial court dismissing the indictment in this case with prejudice, holding that the trial court properly dismissed the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Michela Huth compelling the Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County, Inc. (AWL) to inform her how AWL maintains and accesses its records in the ordinary course of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Brandon L. King, mayor of East Cleveland, to compel the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections to remove a recall election against King from the November 8, 2022 ballot,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus ordering Respondent Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to place Relator Tanya Conrath's name on the ballot as the replacement Democratic Party candidate for the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a limited writ sought by Relators - Sanduskians for Sandusky and Craig McCloskey II - ordering Respondents - the City of Sandusky and city commission members - to enact an ordinance providing…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus ordering the Mahoning County Board of Elections to place Eric Ungaro's name on the November 2022 general election ballot as an independent candidate for the office of state…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's mandamus complaint for failure to satisfy the affidavit requirement of Ohio Rev. Code 2969.25(A), holding that Appellant failed to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus sought by Appellant to compel Judge Julie M. Lynch to vacate certain nunc pro tunc entries, holding that Appellant was not…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this expedited election case the Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus compelling Ohio Secretary of State Frank La Rose to certify Terpsehore P. Maras's name to the November 8, 2022 ballot as an independent…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus ordering Trumbull County Board of Elections and its director and Secretary of State Frank LaRose (collectively, Respondents) to place Sarah Thomas Kovoor's name on the November…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the order of the trial court ordering forfeiture of Appellant's 2014 Chevrolet Silverado, holding that there was no equal protection violation and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that in order for a person whose license is suspended for an offense for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs (OVI) to be guilty of driving under an OVI suspension, the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Appellee, the warden of Trumbull Correctional Institution, holding that the court of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that Ohio Rev. Code 4117.11(B)(7) does not violate the First Amendment, holding that the statute's prohibition on inducing or encouraging…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that the court of appeals correctly found the petition to be procedurally defective…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ sought by Relators, five electors of the city of Canal Winchester, to have a referendum on a zoning ordinance placed on the general election ballot, holding that that the ordinance was…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion to dismiss two of the charges against him, holding that toxicology results trigger a…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of prohibition and denied as moot a writ of mandamus sought by protestors - the village of Moscow and its mayor - to keep a petition to surrender the corporate powers of the village off…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the trial court concluding that Acuity, an insurer, did not owe Masters Pharmaceutical, Inc. a duty to defend it in the several…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals granting a writ of mandamus compelling East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King and the East Cleveland mayor and finance director (collectively, Appellants) to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the summary judgment entered by the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in favor of Warrensville Heights in this real property dispute, holding…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals ordering the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation to return the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) to its previous classifications…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a limited writ of mandamus ordering the City of Twinburg, City Clerk of Council Shannon Collins, and Law Director Matt Vazzana (collectively, the City) to transmit a referendum petition to the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that dismissed counts in an indictment may be sealed before the conviction is eligible to be sealed, holding that the court of appeals…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated Defendant's conviction for aggravated burglary, vacated the finding of guilt on count three charging Defendant with felony murder during an aggravated battery, and dismissed the death penalty…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Annette Chambers-Smith, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, and the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by F. Patrick Cunnane and Mary E. Cunnane to compel Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to certify their names to the ballot, holding that the Cunnanes failed to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Ohio's antiblocking statute, Ohio Rev. Code 5589.21, which prohibits a stopped train from blocking a railroad crossing for more than five minutes, is preempted by the Interstate Commerce…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this original action seeking a writ of mandamus against Geauga County ordering the county to proceed under Ohio Rev. Code 305.14 with the submission and approval of Judge Timothy Grendell's…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a trial court lacks discretion to deny a request for a recommended change in the commitment conditions of a mentally ill person subject to court-ordered commitment to a mental health facility…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Warden Ed Sheldon of the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution, holding that the court…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the court of appeals determining that Appellant's appeal of the denial of his motion to modify the terms of his intervention-in-lieu-of-conviction (ILC) supervision was moot and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the writ of mandamus sought by Brian Ames, a candidate for the Republican Party State Central Committee for Senate District 28 in the August 2022 primary election, holding that Ames was not…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Ohio Power Siting Board to approve the application of Icebreaker Windpower, Inc. for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need to build a six-turbine…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the trial court's decision to overrule Defendant's motion for leave to move for a new trial, holding that the trial court abused its discretion in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of two counts of aggravated murder and his sentences of death on each count but reversed the trial court's judgment imposing postrelease control on counts three, four,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Respondent, warden at the Grafton Correctional Institution (GCI), sought by Petitioner, an inmate at GCI, holding that Petitioner was not entitled…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint for a writ of mandamus to compel Portage County Common Pleas Court Judge Laurie J. Pittman to vacate his convictions for…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal from a judgment of the Seventh District Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court held that Ohio's Marketable Title Act (MTA), Ohio Rev. Code 5301.47 et seq., applied to an oil and gas interest that had been…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the denial by the court of common pleas of Appellants' motion to dismiss concluding that immunity from liability afforded to mental-health…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint seeking a writ of procedendo against the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations, holding…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that 2018 Am.Sub.H.B. 228, which shifted the burden of proof on self-defense to the prosecution, applies to all trials conducted on or after its effective date of March 28, 2019, irrespective of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Appellant's claims were not cognizable in habeas corpus. In 1996, Appellant was…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of procedendo to compel Franklin County Probate Court Judge Jeffrey Mackey to lift a stay in a probate case and proceed with Relators' adoption petition, holding that the court abused its…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against the warden of the Marion Correctional Institution, holding that there was no error or…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court ordered the General Assembly to pass a new congressional-district plan that complied with the Ohio Constitution, holding that the plan adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission on March 2, 2022…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of prohibition against Geauga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carolyn J. Paschke, holding that the court of…

Justia Opinion Summary: In these two original actions the Supreme Court granted a limited writ of prohibition in each action, holding that the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to adopt…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the claims brought by Erik Jones in this expedited election case, holding that Jones was not entitled to a writ of mandamus based on the doctrine of laches. Jones filed a declaration of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the trial court finding Defendant guilty of kidnapping and rape and a repeat-violent-offender specification and imposing a ten-year sentence on each count, to be served…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied relief in this original action brought by Relator, an inmate at the Toledo Correctional Institution (TCI), brought seeking a writ of mandamus to fulfill his public records request he previously…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court determined that a warrantless search conducted in this case did not comport with the Fourth Amendment under the "single-purpose-container exception" to the warrant requirement, holding that when police…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Relator, a prison inmate, in this original action seeking to compel the warden of the Mansfield Correctional Institution to provide copies of electronic kites between…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus requested by six relators (the original relators) in this expedited election case and ordered the county boards of elections to accept the declarations and petitions and to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part a writ of mandamus compelling the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) to produce records requested under Ohio's Public Records Act, Ohio Rev. Code…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of prohibition sought by LG Chem, Ltd., a defendant in a products-liability action pending before Judge Michael Goulding in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, holding that LG Chem did…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to vacate its decision granting a specific safety requirement (VSSR) award to Josue…

Justia Opinion Summary: In consolidated actions, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that an offense-and-incident report, which initiates a police investigation and is a public record under Ohio’s Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43, is not limited to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this original action in which Relators sought a writ of mandamus against the Ohio House of Representatives and ninety-eight of members individually, holding that this Court lacked jurisdiction…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this original action in which Relators sought a writ of mandamus against the Ohio State Senate and its thirty-three members individually, holding that this Court lacked jurisdiction to grant…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals upholding Defendant's sentence, holding that a defendant's display of disrespect toward a trial court is not a permissible sentencing factor that the court…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's action seeking a writ of mandamus ordering the trial court to hold a new sentencing hearing, holding that the court of appeals…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint for a writ of habeas corpus against the current prison warden for failing to state a claim upon which relief could be…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part a writ of mandamus ordering the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) to provide certain records that Relator requested under the Public Records Act,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint for writs of mandamus and/or procedendo against Franklin County Common Please Court Judge Carl A. Aveni II, holding that…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Appellant was not entitled to relief on his allegations of error. Appellant was…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this challenge to a foreclosure judgment, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals, holding that the court of appeals did not err in denying Appellant's motion for relief from the judgment. In…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the General Assembly-district plan adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission on May 5, 2022 was invalid in its entirety and ordered the commission to draft and adopt an entirely new General…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals determining that some evidence supported the determination of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation that Appellant, an underground cable installation…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a reallocation of local-government funds regarding fines collected from the use of traffic cameras during the preceding fiscal year, called the "spending setoff," and the "deposit requirement"…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals granting summary judgment against Appellant, an inmate seeking to compel the clerk of courts to produce certain records under…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions for, among other crimes, two counts of aggravated murder with four death-penalty specifications attached to each count and Defendant's sentence of death, holding that…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions, holding that the judge's comments and questions to witnesses during Defendant's criminal trial did not violate…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus, holding that Appellant did not show that the parole-revocation proceedings violated his constitutional right to due…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals upholding Defendant's conviction of involuntary manslaughter, holding that Defendant's argument on appeal was without merit. Defendant committed a felony…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's convictions after finding that the state failed to prove venue, holding that the court of appeals did not err. Defendant was indicted…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the general division of a common pleas court does not have jurisdiction over an offender who was arrested at the age of twenty for felonious acts he allegedly committed as a…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of prohibition sought by Petitioner, executor of the estate of Virginia Durkin, against Respondent, the judge presiding over the underlying action involving the Durkin estate, holding that…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the trial court finding Robert Burns strictly liable as a public official for the misappropriation of public money, holding that…

Justia Opinion Summary: For the fourth time this issue was before the Supreme Court, the Court held that the third-revised General Assembly-district plan adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission violates the standards of Ohio Const. art.…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals' decision affirming the judgment of the trial court dismissing the criminal case against Defendant without prejudice, holding that the trial court did not err when it…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) upholding the decision of the tax commissioner denying Colonial, Inc.'s application for a tax refund, holding that there was no error. In its…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed this appeal from the decision of the common pleas court entering a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting Appellants from publishing the personal identifying information of Ryan…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Ray Brubaker to compel the Lawrence County Board of Elections to place a local liquor option on the primary-election ballot, holding that Brubaker failed to establish…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgments of the court of appeals reversing the trial court's decisions in these two cases consolidated for appeal, holding that owners of the surface rights to land did not comply with the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that an action seeking a determination that an oil and gas lease has expired by its own terms is a controversy "involving the title to or the possession of real estate" so that the action is exempt…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the trial court ruling that an umbrella insurance policy between Motorists Mutual Insurance Company (Motorists)and Owens-Brockway…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court denying Appellant's motion for leave to file a motion for a new trial and his motion for a new trial and finding…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus sought by Terpsehore Maras, who circulated petitions to appear on the May 2022 Republican Party primary ballot as a candidate for secretary of state, holding that Maras was not…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the trial court dismissing this complaint brought by the Attorney General alleging that Defendants, including Rover Pipeline, LLC,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Eleventh District Court of Appeals dismissing Appellant's declaratory judgment and habeas claims but transferring his mandamus claim to the Tenth District Court of Appeals,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Petitioner's request for injunctive and declaratory relief claiming that the application of Ohio Rev.…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint for a writ of mandamus to compel the City of Beachwood to terminate special prosecutor Stephanie Scalise, holding that this…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the second revised General Assembly-district plan adopted by respondent Ohio Redistricting Commission violates Ohio Const. art. XI, sections 6(A) and 6(B) and ordered the Commission to be…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and vacated in part the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) upholding the tax commissioners denial of Appellant's claim for a sales tax refund, holding that the BTA erred in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied requests sought by four Summit County Municipal Court judges for writs of prohibition and mandamus against Respondents, the Summit County Court of Common Pleas and its administrative judge,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that when a member of the original panel of the court of appeals leaves the bench the departing judge may be replaced by a new judge on the panel that reconsiders its original decision. In this…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Leon Hill, warden of the Marion Correctional Institution, holding that there was no…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing a decision of the Belmont County Court of Common Pleas and holding that amicus curiae Guernsey County Community Development Corporation (CDC) had…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that the court of appeals properly dismissed the petition. Appellant was convicted on…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court issuing a new sentencing entry that included a required notification as to the postrelease-control portion of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus ordering the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts to produce various records relating to criminal proceedings against Parker Bey in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of mandamus or procedendo, holding that Appellant was not entitled to the writ. In 1992, Appellant was convicted…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted the original actions filed in this Court seeking a writ of mandamus and a writ of prohibition to compel Judge Megan E. Shanahan to allow M.R. to proceed in a lawsuit using a pseudonym and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed in part the judgment of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) abating a tax penalty imposed against Appellee by the Tax Commissioner of Ohio, holding that the BTA's abatement of the penalty was…

Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving two separate deeds to property in which successive grantors conveyed the surface rights and part of the mineral interest while retaining part of the oil and gas rights the Supreme Court affirmed in…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that a recorded will that does not affect title to an interest in land is not a recorded title transaction under Ohio Rev. Code 5301.47(F) and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals denying Grandparents' motion for reconsideration of the judgment of the court of appeals ruling that, under In re Adoption of B.I., 131 N.E.3d 28, Father's…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that the court of appeals improperly considered an unauthenticated…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied a writ of habeas corpus ordering Petitioner's release from the Lorain Correctional Institution where Jennifer Black was the warden, holding that Petitioner was not entitled to relief in habeas…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Richard Duncan's complaint against American Transmission Systems, Inc. and FirstEnergy Corp. (collectively, ATSI), and the city of Aurora and its…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's complaint for a writ of habeas corpus against Warden Emma Collins, holding that there was no error. Appellant, an inmate at the…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals denying Appellant's application to reopen his appeal, holding that Appellant's application showed that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted some, but not all, of Relator's requested relief in his petition for a writ of mandamus ordering Donna Crawford, an inspector with the Trumbull Correctional Institution's office of institutional…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant's private citizen affidavit seeking the arrest of Appellee, Beth Diefendorf, an Akron municipal employee, holding that the court of…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition seeking a writ of mandamus ordering his release from prison or, alternatively, an order requiring the Ohio Adult Parole Authority (APA) to impose a shorter prison term,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing his complaint for a writ of mandamus against Former Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert C. Winkler and denying his motion for summary…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Petitioners showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the General Assembly-district plan adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission on January 22, 2022 violated Ohio Const. Art. XI, 6(A) and (B)…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Appellant's conviction and vacated the conviction, holding that no adult court had jurisdiction over acts that were charged in but not bound over…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals granting a writ ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to vacate its order awarding compensation to Cami Bowman, holding that the court of appeals…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court remanded this case to the trial court for modification of Defendant's conviction for rape of a child under the age of thirteen in violation of Ohio Rev. Code 2907.02(A)(1)(b) and for resentencing,…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing two complaints for writs of mandamus to compel the Bureau of Sentence Computation (BSC) and the Ohio Adult Parole Authority (APA) to produce…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Appellant's request for a writ of mandamus ordering Police Chief Michael Kilbane and the City of Independence (collectively, the City) to produce documents relating to the City's implementation…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus ordering the Gauge County auditor to issue warrants on the county treasurer to pay for court-ordered expenditures, holding that Timothy Grendell, judge of the Geauga County…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court declared the congressional-district plan passed by the General Assembly invalid, holding that the General Assembly did not comply with Ohio Const. art. XIX, 1(C)(3)(a) and (b) in passing the plan and…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the General Assembly-district plan (the plan) adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission in September 2021 to be effective for the next four years was invalid under Ohio Const. art. XI, 6(A)…

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals granting a writ of habeas corpus ordering the reduction of Petitioner's bail from $1,500,000 to $500,000, holding that the court of appeals did not…