Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine arrived at the highest court in the state with broad governmental experience. By the time he became the 158th justice of the court earlier this year, he already had served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council and a commissioner on the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners. It’s [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court’s adopted changes to court rules governing commercial dockets change the process for appointing judges to the dockets, their qualifications, term lengths and education requirements. The amended Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio now allows each court of common pleas that has established a commercial docket to select a method [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently imposed a fully stayed one-year suspension on a Medina attorney whose ethical violations were due to “an honest misunderstanding” of trust account rules. The disciplinary case concerned Richard Barbera who was admitted into the practice of law in Ohio in 1994. In 2015, the Disciplinary Counsel charged Barbera with professional [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently upheld the denial of a writ of habeas corpus for an inmate who was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment. David Dunkle, who is currently serving his sentences at the Marion Correctional Institution, argued that a clerical error entitled him to immediate release from prison and that the Third [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court last week unveiled a new website aimed at facilitating resource sharing for Ohio courts. The project, developed by the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Case Management Subcommittee on Resource Sharing, is meant to encourage courts at the local level to collaborate and take inspiration from projects around the state in order [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court last week rejected an effort to compel the Powell City Council to place a referendum regarding a zoning ordinance on the May 2017 ballot. In a per curiam opinion, the high court unanimously held that Eric Ebersole, who sought the writ of mandamus that would have compelled the city to take [...]
Oral arguments at the Ohio Supreme Court continue today with four cases among which is a doctor’s wrongful termination suit. At issue in the case filed by Dr. Mary McGowan against Medpace Inc. is whether an employer is prohibited from retaliation when an employee reports violations of public health and safety policy. According to a [...]
Oral arguments in 10 cases commence tomorrow at the Ohio Supreme Court, beginning with the appeal of Donna Roberts, the only woman on death row. Roberts, who was convicted for the 2001 planned murder of her ex-husband in Trumbull County, has previously argued for a life sentence and will be before the high court to [...]
In one of several year-end decisions released by the Ohio Supreme Court as part of its transition process, a divided court ruled in favor of the Ford Motor Company in a faulty fuel tank case. In an appeal to the high court, Ross Linert, a veteran police officer with the Austintown Township Police, contended that [...]
A divided Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled 4-3 that the state failed to prove the elements of aggravated murder in a Cleveland club shooting case. “The evidence did not show that this killing was done with prior calculation and design as required to sustain a conviction for aggravated murder,” Justice Judith Lanzinger wrote on behalf [...]