April 2018

Motions for reconsideration are not supposed to be a re-hash of arguments already made and lost. In fact, the Supreme Court of Ohio has a rule on that which says, “A motion for reconsideration shall not constitute a re-argument of the case.” When I was on the court of appeals, that’s what most of them

Update: On May 16, the Ohio Department of Heath granted a new license to Capital Care, retroactive to May 8, the date of an inspection of the Clinic by the Department. 

On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio held the license of Capital Care Network of Toledo, northwest Ohio’s last remaining abortion clinic,

Update: On November 5, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mason’s cert. petition

On April 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mason, 2018-Ohio-1462. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Fischer, with two appellate judges subbing for Justices O’Donnell and O’Neill, the Court upheld

Update: On  October 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

On April 11, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in Steven Schmitz et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n et al., 2017-0098. At issue in this case is whether

When reading about the death of former First Lady and presidential mother Barbara Bush, I learned an interesting historical factoid. Her maternal grandfather, James Edgar Robinson, was a Justice on the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1919-1932. Read more about Justice Robinson, who was from Union County, on the Court’s site here.

Update: On September 27 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this appeal as improvidently accepted.  Read more about that here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. A. Christopher M. Burd f.k.a. Christopher M.

Update: Read about the disposition of this case here.

Read an analysis of the argument here.

On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. James L. Dunson, 2017-0186. At issue in this case is whether, in a post-conviction motion to

Update: On  October 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On April 11, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case Steven Schmitz et al v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n