Supreme Court of Ohio Decisions 2017
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9205
Docket Number: 2015-2010
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9206
Docket Number: 2016-0861
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9203
Docket Number: 2016-1082
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9233
Docket Number: 2016-1575
Justia Opinion Summary: OP receives bales of recycled paper bound with wire, which are loaded onto a conveyor for transport into a pulper. An overhead saw cuts the wire. Most wires end up in the pulper, but some get wrapped around the…
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9241
Docket Number: 2016-1894
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2004, McCain was charged with felony murder, aggravated robbery, and falsification. Judge Froelich, of the Montgomery County Court, entered a not-guilty plea on McCain’s behalf after McCain “stood mute.” McCain’s…
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9215
Docket Number: 2017-0794
Justia Opinion Summary: From 2008-2015, Mason was a judge on the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas. In 2014, Mason assaulted his estranged wife in a moving car, with their children (ages four and six) in the backseat, then drove off, leaving her…
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9204
Docket Number: 2017-0799
Date: December 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9243
Docket Number: 2017-1084
Date: December 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9202
Docket Number: 2017-0090
Justia Opinion Summary: Inmates, sentenced to indeterminate prison terms for crimes committed before 1996 sentencing reforms, alleged that the parole board has an unwritten policy of denying parole to old-law offenders, noting statements by…
Date: December 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9163
Docket Number: 2017-0234
Justia Opinion Summary: Martin was convicted in Cleveland Heights Municipal Court of receiving stolen property and other charges. The Eighth District Court of Appeals dismissed his appeal for lack of a final order. Martin sought a writ of…
Date: December 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9175
Docket Number: 2017-0332
Justia Opinion Summary: Swain sought a writ of mandamus in the Tenth District Court of Appeals to compel the Ohio Adult Parole Authority to expunge its records of allegedly inaccurate information and to provide him with a “meaningful…
Date: December 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9242
Docket Number: 2017-0369
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1981, McDermott was sentenced to life in prison. The Adult Parole Authority (APA) has repeatedly denied McDermott parole, most recently in 2015, finding substantial reason to believe that his release would create…
Date: December 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9183
Docket Number: 2017-0643
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2004, McKinney was convicted of five counts arising from a single event: robbery, aggravated theft, receiving stolen property, and two counts of failing to comply with a police officer’s order. He was sentenced to…
Date: December 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9160
Docket Number: 2017-0604
Justia Opinion Summary: K.R. filed suit in the domestic-relations court to establish paternity and to allocate parental rights and responsibilities for M.W.’s minor child. On Friday, April 14, the court held a hearing on its own motion;…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9118
Docket Number: 2015-1157
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) dismissing NASCAR Holdings, Inc.’s notice of appeal solely because it was filed by an attorney who was not licensed to practice law in Ohio. The…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9112
Docket Number: 2016-0968
Justia Opinion Summary: In this mandamus case in which Appellant challenged an order of the Industrial Commission granting an additional award for the violation of a specific safety requirement (VSSR), the nip-point rule found in Ohio Admin.…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9131
Docket Number: 2016-1169
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal from the judgment of the court of appeals in which the court concluded that the Industrial Commission of Ohio should not have denied the application of Appellee for permanent total disability compensation,…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9140
Docket Number: 2016-1233
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying a writ of mandamus to compel Judge David L. Johnson to vacate Appellant’s aggravated murder conviction and issue a final appealable order disposing…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9141
Docket Number: 2017-0485
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of mandamus to compel Judge Scott W. Nusbaum to issue a final, appealable order in a proceeding brought under…
Date: December 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9124
Docket Number: 2017-0536
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking an order compelling the trial court to issue a final, appealable order for his 1986…
Date: December 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9108
Docket Number: 2017-0541
Justia Opinion Summary: Home Advocate Trustees, LLC (HAT) engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by providing legal counsel to Ohio residents whose Ohio real property was in foreclosure, as charged in a complaint by the Ohio State Bar…
Date: December 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9109
Docket Number: 2017-0542
Date: December 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9110
Docket Number: 2017-0543
Justia Opinion Summary: Century Negotiations, Inc. engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by conducting debt-settlement negotiations on behalf of Ohio consumers, as charged by the Ohio State Bar Association. The Board found that Century…
Date: December 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9087
Docket Number: 2014-0197
Date: December 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9104
Docket Number: 2015-0277
Date: December 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9088
Docket Number: 2017-0791
Date: December 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-9100
Docket Number: 2017-0796
Date: December 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8988
Docket Numbers: 2016-1115, 2016-1153
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the request of Relators - Cincinnati Enquirer and Columbus Dispatch - for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the release of unreacted reports on the autopsies of eight members of the Rhoden and…
Date: December 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8992
Docket Number: 2017-1659
Date: December 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8955
Docket Numbers: 2016-1136, 2016-1138
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8843
Docket Number: 2014-1647
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) reversing the decision of the Board of Revision (BOR) and reinstating the auditor’s tax-year-2011 valuation of the subject property at $1,550,000.…
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8844
Docket Number: 2015-0336
Justia Opinion Summary: In this real-property valuation case, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that San Diego Real Estate Investments, LLC’s (SD REI) complaint seeking to reduce the county auditor’s…
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8845
Docket Number: 2015-0633
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) affirming the Board of Revision’s (BOR) valuation of the subject property in this case, concluding that the Board of Education (BOE) had not…
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8853
Docket Number: 2016-0256
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reinstated the appeal of a group of landowners challenging the tax commissioner’s journal entry that set forth a table assigning per-acre values to different types of agricultural land, holding that the…
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8854
Docket Number: 2016-0510
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) dismissing the appeal of a group of Landowners challenging the tax commissioner’s journal entries that set forth current agricultural-use values…
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8856
Docket Number: 2016-1830
Date: December 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8857
Docket Number: 2017-0227
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8817
Docket Number: 2015-0713
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) adopting $951,776 as the value of the subject property in this real-property-tax-valuation case for tax year 2012. The value was based on the…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8820
Docket Number: 2015-0759
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) denying Appellant’s request to reduce the value of residential property he owned during the 2013 tax year. The subject property consisted of a…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8816
Docket Number: 2015-0976
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) reversing the tax commissioner’s determination finding that certain apartment buildings did not qualify for an exemption under Ohio Rev. Code…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8798
Docket Number: 2015-1332
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) affirming in part and reversing in part a tax assessment issued by the tax commissioner based on a consumer-use-tax audit of certain purchases…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8819
Docket Number: 2015-1388
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) determining that the subject property in this case should be valued in 2013 according to its 2012 sale price of $550,000. The property was retail…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8818
Docket Number: 2015-1431
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) and Board of Revision (BOR) to retain the county fiscal officer’s valuation of real property owned by Appellant. The subject property consisted of…
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8799
Docket Number: 2016-1494
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8800
Docket Number: 2016-1834
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8821
Docket Number: 2017-0487
Date: December 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8813
Docket Number: 2017-0489
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8773
Docket Number: 2016-1316
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for a writ of mandamus. In his petition, Appellant argued that he was entitled to be released from custody under the…
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8784
Docket Number: 2016-1572
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals’ denial of Appellant’s petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition. In his original action for writs of mandamus and prohibition, Appellant alleged, among other things,…
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8774
Docket Number: 2017-0490
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8775
Docket Number: 2017-0491
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8790
Docket Number: 2017-0540
Date: December 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8767
Docket Number: 2017-1088
Date: December 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8741
Docket Number: 1991-1741
Date: December 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8753
Docket Number: 2016-1147
Date: December 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8752
Docket Number: 2017-0280
Date: December 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8751
Docket Number: 2017-0341
Date: November 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8714
Docket Number: 2016-0387
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals granting judgment in favor of Michael Clay in this action seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the release of autopsy records by the Cuyahoga County Medical…
Date: November 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8721
Docket Number: 2016-1181
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s original action seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the Ohio Adult Parole Authority (APA) to conduct a new parole-revocation…
Date: November 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8722
Docket Number: 2016-1295
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying Appellant’s petition for a writ of prohibition in this case seeking modification of child support. After a Florida dissolution decree was registered…
Date: November 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8723
Docket Number: 2017-0014
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of mandamus. Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to an indefinite term of a minimum of fifteen years…
Date: November 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8724
Docket Number: 2017-0787
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking an order releasing him on bond and suspending execution of his sentence pending appeal. Petitioner, who was convicted of aggravated…
Date: November 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8707
Docket Number: 2016-1755
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for writs of mandamus and prohibition seeking to compel the court of claims judge to proceed with his medical…
Date: November 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8708
Docket Number: 2017-0383
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant was granted parole on the condition of “zero tolerance for any positive drug…
Date: November 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8709
Docket Number: 2017-0800
Date: November 2, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8384
Docket Number: 2015-1191
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) affirming the Franklin County Board of Revision’s (BOR) reduced valuation of a residential property in the amount of $65,000 for tax year 2011. The…
Date: November 2, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8385
Docket Number: 2015-1192
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the Board of Tax Appeals’ (BTA) decision on remand adopting the appraisal valuation of the property owner’s appraiser for the second time. The property at issue was a vacant 22.27-acre parcel…
Date: November 2, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8391
Docket Number: 2016-1036
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for a writ of mandamus against the Ohio Adult Parole Authority (APA). In his petition, Appellant argued that he had…
Date: November 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8368
Docket Number: 2015-1517
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the writ of mandamus sought by Kurt Singer to, among other things, compel Fairland Local School District Board of Education (Fairland) to recognize him as a “regular nonteaching school employee”…
Date: November 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8369
Docket Number: 2016-1453
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals’ denial of a writ of mandamus to compel Judge Shannon Gallagher to declare Appellant’s sexual-predator classification void. In his first proposition of law, Appellant…
Date: October 31, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8347
Docket Number: 2014-0826
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) in this case disputing the valuation of real property retained by an owner after it sold a portion of its property during the tax year at issue and…
Date: October 31, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8348
Docket Number: 2016-0505
Justia Opinion Summary: The railroad that held land within a territory proposed for annexation had a railroad right-of-way held in fee, and therefore, the railroad fell within the exception to the definition of “owner” set forth in Ohio Rev.…
Date: October 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8304
Docket Number: 2016-0903
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals that affirmed Defendant’s felonious assault conviction for knowingly engaging in sexual conduct with his girlfriend without disclosing to her that he had…
Date: October 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8305
Docket Number: 2016-1744
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant was charged with drug trafficking and drug possession while on parole for an…
Date: October 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8289
Docket Number: 2016-0907
Justia Opinion Summary: In this action alleging that D.S. allegedly engaged in acts of sexual contact with another boy, the Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeal and reinstated the juvenile court’s order dismissing the…
Date: October 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8290
Docket Number: 2016-1911
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of prohibition against Appellee, Court of Claims Judge Patrick McGrath. Appellant, an inmate, filed a negligence…
Date: October 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8294
Docket Number: 2017-0193
Date: October 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8295
Docket Number: 2017-0983
Date: October 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8223
Docket Number: 2017-1313
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Relator’s request for a writ of mandamus and/or a writ of prohibition to compel Respondent, the Wood County Board of Elections, to remove a charter amendment petition from the November 2017…
Date: October 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8132
Docket Number: 2016-1257
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the complaint of Appellant for writs of mandamus and/or procedendo against Summit County Court of Common Pleas Judge Christine Croce. In his…
Date: October 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8134
Docket Number: 2016-1288
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of Appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition, Appellant claimed that he had served the maximum sentence on his…
Date: October 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8167
Docket Number: 2017-1285
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied relief in this original action seeking writs of mandamus and prohibition in regards to a zoning referendum. Relators argued that the zoning referendum did not comply with Ohio Rev. Code 519.12(H)…
Date: October 11, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8133
Docket Number: 2016-1183
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals’ denial of Appellant’s complaint for a writ of prohibition against Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard McMonagle, holding that the jurisdictional-priority rule…
Date: October 10, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8114
Docket Number: 2016-0238
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that the exclusionary rule is not the appropriate remedy when police executing a valid search warrant violate the requirements of the…
Date: October 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8109
Docket Number: 2017-1239
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied writs of mandamus sought by Relators to compel the Mahoning County Board of Elections (BOE) and its individual members (collectively, Respondents) to certify Relators’ petitions to place two…
Date: October 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8115
Docket Number: 2017-1293
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the writ of mandamus sought by Joseph Simonetti seeking to compel the Summit County Board of Elections and Secretary of State (collectively, Respondents) to place his name on the November 7, 2017…
Date: October 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8046
Docket Number: 2017-0474
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a peremptory writ of prohibition to halt an action for an assignment for the benefit of a disbarred attorney’s creditors (the ABC action) pending before a Hamilton County probate judge. In 2004,…
Date: October 4, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8011
Docket Number: 2015-2026
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant’s conviction for aggravated murder and the death sentence imposed in connection with the aggravated murder, holding that the trial court committed plain error in admitting into…
Date: October 2, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-8009
Docket Number: 2017-1232
Date: September 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7892
Docket Number: 2017-1315
Date: September 28, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7844
Docket Number: 2015-1975
Justia Opinion Summary: Under Ohio law, an employer may appeal a determination by the Industrial Commission that an employee has the right to participate in the workers’ compensation fund, and although the employer files the appeal in the…
Date: September 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7823
Docket Number: 2016-1395
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to Ohio Rev. Code 2953.52(B)(4), a trial court may seal the records in a case dismissed without prejudice before the statute of limitations has expired. Here, the State filed a complaint against Defendant…
Date: September 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7816
Docket Number: 2016-1730
Justia Opinion Summary: In this original action, Relator sought a writ of prohibition to bar the Twelfth District Court of Appeals from hearing the State’s appeal of the trial court’s judgment of acquittal under Ohio R. Crim. P. 29(A). The…
Date: September 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7824
Docket Number: 2016-1841
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the petition for a writ of mandamus that Appellant filed against Appellees, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and related parties. In his petition, Appellant…
Date: September 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7801
Docket Number: 2015-0341
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that denied a tax exemption for real property leased to a community school. The tax commissioner determined that for tax years 2008 through 2010,…
Date: September 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7800
Docket Number: 2015-0342
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) affirming the tax commissioner’s denial of 2350 Morse LLC’s application for tax exemption of real property leased to a community school, holding…
Date: September 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7798
Docket Number: 2016-0778
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) determining that a corporate executive’s supplemental executive retirement plan (SERP) was not subject to the city of Cleveland’s income tax. Upon…
Date: September 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7780
Docket Number: 2016-1514
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying Petitioner’s petition for a writ of mandamus, holding that the claims asserted in the petition were barred by res judicata. Petitioner pleaded…
Date: September 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7664
Docket Number: 2016-0495
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA), which adopted $8,492,910 as the property value for a thirty-seven-acre parcel of real property for tax years 2011 through 2013. The BTA based its…
Date: September 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7678
Docket Number: 2017-0321
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part a writ of prohibition requested by Relators - Rocky Ridge Development, LLC and Stanley Industries, Inc. - against common laws court judge Bruce Winters after Judge Winters issued a…
Date: September 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7714
Docket Number: 2017-1164
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied writs of mandamus requested by Relators - the members of the Athens County and Medina County Committees of Petitioners - seeking to compel Respondents - Relators’ respective county board of…
Date: September 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7650
Docket Number: 2015-0378
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that adopted an allocated portion of a bulk-sale price as the property value for tax year 2011 for two parcels of property along the Ohio River.…
Date: September 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7651
Docket Number: 2016-0686
Justia Opinion Summary: In this original action, Relator requested a writ of prohibition to void the court of appeals’ judgment in the State’s appeal of a judgment granting Relator postconviction relief, to void the common pleas judge’s…
Date: September 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7685
Docket Number: 2017-0052
Date: September 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7683
Docket Number: 2017-1213
Date: September 15, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7648
Docket Number: 2017-1181
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Relators’ petition seeking a writ of mandamus compelling the Lorain County Board of Election to certify an initiative petition for the November ballot. The petition sought to repeal a county…
Date: September 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7569
Docket Number: 2015-0036
Justia Opinion Summary: An employer does not face liability for the violation of a specific safety requirement (VSSR) when it lacked knowledge of a specific danger requiring a safety device. Employee suffered a head injury while working for…
Date: September 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7577
Docket Number: 2015-1074
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court issued a writ of mandamus ordering the Industrial Commission to vacate its award to Employee of permanent-partial-disability compensation under Ohio Rev. Code 4123.57(A) and to issue an order denying…
Date: September 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7578
Docket Number: 2015-2105
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that increased the tax value of property owned by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. On appeal, State Farm challenged the BTA’s…
Date: September 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7579
Docket Number: 2016-0102
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that valued the land underlying the North Bank Condominiums in Franklin County for tax year 2013. The BTA adopted the value found in an appraisal…
Date: September 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7555
Docket Number: 2014-0799
Justia Opinion Summary: There was no error in the determination of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that the plan of the Illuminating Company to remove a silver maple tree located near the company’s transmission line was reasonable. The…
Date: September 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7556
Docket Number: 2014-1922
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions of aggravated murder with three death specifications and his sentence of death. The court held (1) the trial court did not err by denying Defendant’s motion for change…
Date: September 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7565
Docket Number: 2015-0924
Justia Opinion Summary: When a juvenile whose parents are deceased appears at an amenability hearing, the juvenile is not required to ask for the appointment of a guardian ad litem (GAL). Rather, a GAL must be appointed as mandated by Ohio Rev.…
Date: September 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7566
Docket Number: 2016-0080
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the orders issued by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) finding that the presence of stray gas near Appellants’ properties created a verifiable safety hazard that justified Columbia…
Date: September 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7526
Docket Number: 2016-1013
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered a case certified to it by the Twelfth District Court of Appeals in this medical malpractice case, holding that, for purposes of Ohio Rev. Code 2317.43(A), a statement expressing apology is “a…
Date: September 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7527
Docket Number: 2016-1122
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether the law-of-the-case doctrine requires a court to apply the findings of a superior court in a criminal case to a civil case brought by the criminal defendant against individuals and…
Date: September 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7528
Docket Number: 2016-1502
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals concluding that the common pleas court had jurisdiction over a motion to show cause. Appellant, an attorney, filed this action for a writ of prohibition…
Date: September 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7468
Docket Number: 2016-0672
Justia Opinion Summary: The term “harm,” for purposes of Ohio’s kidnapping statute, encompasses not only physical harm but also psychological harm. The kidnapping statute reduces the level of the offense from a first-degree felony to a…
Date: September 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7469
Docket Number: 2016-0782
Justia Opinion Summary: Any dismissal of a count in an indictment resolves that count and does not prevent a judgment of conviction from being final and appealable. Defendant was indicted on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated…
Date: September 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7470
Docket Number: 2017-0997
Date: September 7, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7471
Docket Number: 2017-1158
Date: September 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7445
Docket Number: 2016-0790
Justia Opinion Summary: The ordinary meaning of “person” under Ohio’s Dram Shop Act, Ohio Rev. Code 4399.18, includes not only patrons but also dancers, workers, independent contractors, and others served by the liquor-permit holder. A dancer…
Date: September 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7438
Docket Number: 2016-1116
Date: August 10, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7157
Docket Number: 2017-0663
Date: August 10, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7172
Docket Number: 2017-0753
Justia Opinion Summary: The clerk of the Cleveland City Council rejected a referendum petition seeking to repeal Cleveland Ordinance No. 305-17, finding that it would “unconstitutionally impair an already existing and binding contract.” Several…
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6952
Docket Number: 2015-0192
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered a question certified to it by the Second District Court of Appeals, holding that the general division of the court of common pleas must sentence a juvenile under Ohio Rev. Code Chapter 2929 for…
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6953
Docket Number: 2016-0564
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant failed to disclose his sealed criminal conviction on an application for employment and on applications to renew his registration as an adult-services worker with the Ohio Department of Developmental…
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6954
Docket Number: 2016-1375
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his habeas corpus petition Appellant asserted that the common pleas court lacked…
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6962
Docket Number: 2016-1465
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant was convicted of aggravated murder, but his conviction was reversed on appeal and…
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6965
Docket Number: 2016-1495
Date: July 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6963
Docket Number: 2017-0226
Date: July 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6909
Docket Number: 2015-1549
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether three statutes regulating local authorities’ use of red-light and speedy cameras offend the home-rule powers granted to a municipality in Ohio Const. art. XVIII, 3 or whether they…
Date: July 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6922
Docket Number: 2016-0741
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals denying Appellant’s petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition. Appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery, felonious assault, and having a weapon…
Date: July 26, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6923
Docket Number: 2016-0921
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals granting a limited writ of mandamus and ordering the Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System Board and Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System (collectively,…
Date: July 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6873
Docket Number: 1995-0042
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reopened Appellant’s direct appeal of his capital murder conviction to consider whether the trial court had jurisdiction over Appellant’s aggravated murder charge. Appellant was convicted of the…
Date: July 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6874
Docket Number: 2016-1303
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition, Appellant, an inmate, asserted flaws in the charging instrument and his…
Date: July 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6869
Docket Numbers: 2014-0136, 2014-1403
Date: July 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6871
Docket Number: 2016-1838
Date: July 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-6872
Docket Number: 2017-0225
Date: July 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5834
Docket Numbers: 2016-0172, 2016-0282
Justia Opinion Summary: The placement of a suspect in the front seat of a police vehicle during a traffic stop is not alone determinative of whether the suspect has been subjected to a custodial interrogation. In this case, a state highway…
Date: July 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5833
Docket Number: 2016-0632
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals that granted a limited writ of mandamus ordering the Industrial Commission to amend its order awarding permanent-total-disability compensation to adjust the…
Date: July 18, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5823
Docket Number: 2015-0565
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that retained the reduced values that the Franklin County Board of Revision (BOR) adopted for eighteen condominium parcels in Franklin County for…
Date: July 18, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5861
Docket Number: 2016-0858
Date: July 18, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5824
Docket Number: 2017-0173
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals, which concluded that the consent of Appellant, the putative father of Child, to Child’s adoption by Appellees was not necessary because Appellant…
Date: July 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5785
Docket Number: 2017-0803
Date: July 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5697
Docket Number: 2016-1056
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and conspiracy for his role in plotting to kill several local officials. Defendant was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Appellant filed a…
Date: July 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5698
Docket Number: 2016-1147
Date: July 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5700
Docket Number: 2017-0223
Date: July 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5656
Docket Number: 2016-0317
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the appellate court affirming the nineteen-year prison sentence imposed on Defendant at resentencing for his involvement in the robberies of three individuals and the kidnapping…
Date: July 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5659
Docket Number: 2016-0923
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of felony murder. On appeal, Defendant did not challenge the sufficiency of the jury verdict forms. In postconviction proceedings, however, Defendant did raise an insufficient-verdict-form claim.…
Date: June 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5536
Docket Number: 2014-0328
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the Public Utilities Commission that authorized Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. to recover costs associated with the environmental remediation of two manufactured-gas-plant (MGP) sites near…
Date: June 29, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5541
Docket Number: 2016-0509
Justia Opinion Summary: The court of appeals properly concluded that the evidence supported the decision of the Industrial Commission that Appellant was not eligible for benefits because he had voluntarily abandoned the workforce for reasons…
Date: June 27, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4466
Docket Number: 2017-0315
Justia Opinion Summary: Article IV, Section 4 of the Westlake City Charter requires the city’s director of law to have been engaged in the active practice of law for any period of six year preceding election. In this case, Andrea Rocco field…
Date: June 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4432
Docket Number: 2015-1638
Date: June 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4415
Docket Number: 2015-2063
Justia Opinion Summary: The amendment to Ohio Rev. Code 5713.03 enacted in 2012 (H.B. 487) applied to the circumstances of this case and required a remand to the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) for further consideration. At issue here was a 2013…
Date: June 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4417
Docket Number: 2017-0221
Date: June 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-7374
Docket Number: 17-AP-041
Date: June 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4328
Docket Number: 2015-0389
Justia Opinion Summary: West Carrollton City Schools Board of Education (BOE) appealed the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) that retained the auditor’s update-year valuation of $4,716,690 for 2011 for the two contiguous parcels of…
Date: June 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4329
Docket Number: 2016-1821
Date: June 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4314
Docket Number: 2017-0677
Date: June 15, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4269
Docket Number: 2015-0322
Justia Opinion Summary: The Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) upheld the tax commissioner’s denial of a property tax exemption for Appellant’s four dialysis-service centers for tax year 2007 and the denial of Appellant’s requested remission of the…
Date: June 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4204
Docket Number: 2009-1541
Date: June 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4130
Docket Number: 2016-0854
Date: June 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4025
Docket Number: 2015-0187
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue was a lessor’s right to terminate an oil and gas lease when a lessee fails to make minimum annual rental or royalty payments. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the lessors in this case and…
Date: May 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2998
Docket Number: 2014-0989
Justia Opinion Summary: After review of Defendant’s first appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions for aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and aggravated robbery but vacated Defendant’s death sentence. On remand, the trial…
Date: May 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4002
Docket Number: 2015-0313
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant filed a complaint challenging the $148,800 valuation on certain property found by the fiscal officer for tax year 2012. The Cuyahoga County Board of Revision (BOR) reduced the property value to $60,000.…
Date: May 30, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-4003
Docket Number: 2015-1697
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1992, Appellant was injured in an accident while in the course and scope of his employment. In 2014, Appellant applied for permanent total disability benefits. A hearing officer found that Appellant was not…
Date: May 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2976
Docket Numbers: 2004-2112, 2008-0772
Date: May 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2956
Docket Number: 2015-0677
Justia Opinion Summary: In State v. Aalim, __ N.E.3d __ (Aalim I), the Supreme Court declared that the Ohio Constitution requires that a juvenile who is subject to mandatory bindover receive an amenability hearing. Implicit in this holding was…
Date: May 25, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2975
Docket Number: 2016-1333
Date: May 24, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2927
Docket Number: 2016-0215
Justia Opinion Summary: To validly impose postrelease control when the trial court orally provides all the required advisements at the sentencing hearing, the sentencing entry must contain certain required information. In 2011, the court of…
Date: May 24, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2928
Docket Numbers: 2016-0440, 2016-0441
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals erred on double jeopardy grounds in reversing the trial court’s decision to grant Appellants’ motions to dismiss an indictment that charged them with ethnic intimidation. Appellants filed their…
Date: May 23, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2923
Docket Number: 2015-1717
Date: May 23, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2929
Docket Number: 2016-0845
Date: May 23, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2924
Docket Number: 2016-1496
Date: May 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2895
Docket Number: 2016-0623
Date: May 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2896
Docket Number: 2016-0636
Date: May 18, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2830
Docket Number: 2015-1993
Justia Opinion Summary: An Industrial Commission order determining that a preexisting condition that was substantially aggravated by a workplace injury has returned to a level that would have existed absent the jury is not appealable to a court…
Date: May 17, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-5543
Docket Number: 17-AP-033
Date: May 17, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2804
Docket Number: 2015-1581
Justia Opinion Summary: Any limitation on an arbitrator’s authority to modify a disciplinary action pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) provision requiring that discipline be imposed only for just cause must be specifically…
Date: May 17, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2805
Docket Number: 2016-1187
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, an inmate who was serving sentences imposed for his convictions for a variety of offenses, filed an original action in the court of appeals seeking monetary damages from the Madison County Court of Common…
Date: May 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2792
Docket Number: 2016-0646
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, who was sentenced to a twelve-year term after he was arrested while on parole, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction improperly calculated…
Date: May 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2793
Docket Number: 2016-0859
Date: May 11, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2734
Docket Number: 2014-0807
Justia Opinion Summary: The owner of property consisting of several residential parcels that were part of a government-subsidized, low-income housing project, challenged the valuations of the property for tax years 2008, 2009, and 2010. The…
Date: May 11, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2735
Docket Number: 2016-0271
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue was whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the judgment of the county court of common pleas suppressing evidence seized during the warrantless search of an unattended book bag conducted by a school…
Date: May 3, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-2626
Docket Number: 2005-68789
Date: April 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1426
Docket Number: 2014-1157
Justia Opinion Summary: Norman James was injured while employed by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. James later quit his job at Wal-Mart. James briefly got a job with Casper Transport Inc. and Casper Service Automotive (Casper). On June 1, 2007, James was…
Date: April 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1428
Docket Number: 2015-0078
Justia Opinion Summary: The former owner of the subject property at issue in this case filed a valuation complaint in 2006 seeking to reduce the property’s tax-year-2005 value. The Franklin County Board of Revision (BOR) lowered the value but…
Date: April 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1343
Docket Number: 2016-0962
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, Appellant was charged in Warren County, Ohio with two drug-related felony offenses. Appellant fled the jurisdiction before trial and was later imprisoned in Pennsylvania for federal drug convictions. In 2012,…
Date: April 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1429
Docket Number: 2016-1487
Date: April 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1412
Docket Numbers: 2014-2008, 2014-2009, 2014-2010
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in these three consolidated appeals was whether the Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) acted reasonably and lawfully in valuing properties based on recent arm’s-length-sale prices. The first case involved a residential…
Date: April 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1410
Docket Numbers: 2015-2081, 2016-0180
Justia Opinion Summary: Joseph Gorman contracted with James Wilson to purchase a fifteen percent interest in Marine 1, LLC for $300,000. At the time Gorman died, he owed Wilson $187,000 on the contract. The probate court appointed William…
Date: April 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1413
Docket Number: 2016-0837
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants and Grady Reed were shareholders in a closely held corporation. In a 2010 complaint, Reed alleged that Appellants had breached the shareholders’ agreement and demanded relief in the form of money damages.…
Date: April 18, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1401
Docket Number: 2015-1892
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with burglary. Before Defendant’s trial was to begin, the court confirmed that Defendant had been offered and rejected a plea offer. After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty. Following a…
Date: April 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1342
Docket Number: 2016-0252
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking an order compelling Appellee, a Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county judge, to vacate his sentence as void and to resentencing him “according to the verdict…
Date: April 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1350
Docket Number: 2016-0812
Justia Opinion Summary: The Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted five individuals with two misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. Thereafter, the city of East Cleveland filed an identical dereliction-of-duty charge against each of the…
Date: April 12, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1335
Docket Number: 2015-0612
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator filed an original action in mandamus against the Cuyahoga County sheriff seeking to compel, pursuant to Ohio’s Public Records Act, the production of all offense or incident reports in the possession, custody or…
Date: April 5, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1237
Docket Number: 2017-0341
Date: March 24, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1051
Docket Number: 2017-0280
Date: March 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-900
Docket Number: 2014-1032
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case were the proper valuations for tax year 2008 of two government-subsidized housing complexes in Franklin County. For each of the two properties, the property owner filed a complaint challenging the…
Date: March 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-919
Docket Number: 2014-1394
Date: March 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-920
Docket Number: 2015-0293
Date: March 15, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-882
Docket Number: 2016-1159
Date: March 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-865
Docket Number: 2014-1794
Justia Opinion Summary: David Emerson owned two adjoining parcels of real property in Erie County. The Erie County auditor’s aggregate valuation of the two parcels for tax year 2011 was $328,270. Emerson challenged the valuations, arguing that…
Date: March 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-870
Docket Number: 2014-1820
Justia Opinion Summary: The real property in this case was a manufacturing and distribution facility owned and operated by Johnson Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc. The Hamilton County auditor valued the property at $13,571,760 for tax year…
Date: March 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1436
Docket Number: 17-AP-019
Date: March 13, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-864
Docket Number: 2017-0210
Date: March 10, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-1434
Docket Number: 17-AP-006
Date: March 9, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-829
Docket Number: 2015-1841
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was an inmate at the London Correctional Institution, where he was serving the remainder of an indeterminate sentence since the Adult Parole Authority (APA) revoked his parole in 2014. In 2015, Appellant filed…
Date: March 9, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-831
Docket Number: 2016-0259
Date: March 8, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-796
Docket Number: 2017-0079
Justia Opinion Summary: In July 2015, the Delaware Joint Vocational School District Board of Education passed a resolution to submit a renewal levy to voters at the general election. On November 20, 2015, the Delaware County Board of Elections…
Date: March 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-777
Docket Numbers: 2015-0384, 2015-0385
Justia Opinion Summary: In State v. Gonzales (Gonzales I), the Supreme Court determined that, in prosecuting cocaine-possession offenses under Ohio Rev. Code 2925.11(C)(4)(b) through (f) involving mixed substances, the State must prove that the…
Date: February 22, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-551
Docket Number: 2015-1685
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1986, Appellant pleaded guilty to five counts of rape and six counts of complicity to rape. The trial court sentenced Appellant to four terms of life imprisonment and ordered that Appellant serve each of the life…
Date: February 21, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-550
Docket Number: 2016-1149
Date: February 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-522
Docket Number: 2015-0243
Date: February 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-524
Docket Number: 2017-0037
Date: February 16, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-525
Docket Number: 2017-0038
Date: February 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-506
Docket Number: 2015-2007
Date: February 14, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-509
Docket Number: 2016-1701
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2016, the Powell City Council approved an ordinance rezoning certain property from planned commercial and residence districts to downtown residence district. Thereafter, Brian Ebersole sought a writ of mandamus to…
Date: February 10, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-472
Docket Number: 2017-0052
Date: February 2, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-523
Docket Number: 17-AP-002
Date: February 1, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-365
Docket Number: 2017-0010
Date: January 24, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-255
Docket Number: 2016-1868
Date: January 20, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-224
Docket Number: 2016-1863
Justia Opinion Summary: Relators were the members of the committee that nominated Gary Johnson and William Weld to appear on Ohio’s November 2016 ballot as independent candidates for president and vice president of the United States. Johnson…
Date: January 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-174
Docket Number: 2014-0200
Date: January 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-173
Docket Number: 2016-1879
Date: January 19, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-171
Docket Number: 2017-0020
Date: January 11, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-67
Docket Number: 2016-1846
Date: January 9, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-317
Docket Number: 16-AP-105
Date: January 6, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-19
Docket Number: 1996-44769
Date: January 3, 2017
Citation: 2017-Ohio-321
Docket Number: 16-AP-106
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