Goodman v. Hanseman

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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Goodman v. Hanseman, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-1587.] NOTICE This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in an advance sheet of the Ohio Official Reports. Readers are requested to promptly notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of Ohio, 65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or other formal errors in the opinion, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is published. SLIP OPINION NO. 2012-OHIO-1587 GOODMAN, DIR., OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, APPELLANT, v. HANSEMAN, ADMR., ET AL., APPELLEES. [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as Goodman v. Hanseman, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-1587.] Appellate procedure Standing. (No. 2010-2159 Submitted November 1, 2011 Decided April 12, 2012.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County, Nos. 23834, 23835, and 23842, 2010-Ohio-5273. __________________ Per Curiam. {¶ 1} To have appellate standing, a party must be aggrieved by the final order appealed from. State ex rel. Merrill v. Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources, 130 Ohio St.3d 30, 2011-Ohio-4612, 955 N.E.2d 935, ¶ 28, quoting Ohio Contract Carriers Assn., Inc. v. Pub. Util. Comm., 140 Ohio St. 160, 42 N.E.2d 758 (1942), syllabus. Accord State ex rel. Gabriel v. Youngstown, 75 Ohio St.3d 618, 665 N.E.2d 209 (1996). Appellees, the cross-appellants below, did not have standing to appeal the decision of the trial court. Accordingly, the SUPREME COURT OF OHIO portion of the court of appeals decision concerning the powers of the Division of Securities is vacated. So ordered. O CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O DONNELL, LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. __________________ Michael DeWine, Attorney General, Alexandra T. Schimmer, Solicitor General, Stephen P. Carney, Deputy Solicitor, and Cheryl R. Hawkinson and Dennis P. Smith Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant. Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, L.L.P., Ralph W. Kohnen, and Eric Combs, for appellee Alice Jane Dillabaugh. ______________________ 2

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