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Update: On September 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“If you asked an average speaker of the English language none of them would say to you that this doctor was engaged in the active clinical practice of medicine, would they?”
Justice DeWine…
Update: On June 24, 2021 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“How is he anonymous if the person is right there in front of the police officer’s face?”
Justice Stewart, to counsel for Tidwell
On March 30, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard…
Update: On September 22, 2021, 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 March 30, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Mark Johnson, Individually and as Guardian of David Johnson, an incompetent, …
“Irrespective of whether the court of appeals based its judgment on the content of the video alone or on the prosecutor’s narrative description of the video’s content, however, the video does not by itself establish that it contains information directly used for protecting or maintaining the security of a public office against attack, interference, or…
“On the facts of this case, we conclude that because Smith placed his intent at issue by claiming that his actions were accidental and not done with sexual intent, the trial court properly admitted evidence of the prior sexual-assault allegations.”
Justice DeWine, opinion of the Court
On September 22, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio…
Update: On April 1, 2021, in an opinion written by Judge Frank Celebrezze, Jr. and joined by Judges Eileen A. Gallagher and Mary Eileen Kilbane, the Eighth District overruled the remaining assignments of error regarding the manifest weight of the evidence, Civ. R. 30(B)(5) testimony of the designated witness for the Cleveland Clinic, and a…
Update: On December 22, 2020, the Court handed down a merit decision in State v. Turner, Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-6773. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, joined by Justices French, DeWine, Stewart and Donnelly, the Court held that driving on, but not over the outer edge white fog line is not…
Update: On October 20, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So, what should the judge have said?”
Justice DeWine to counsel for Price
On June 16, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in State of Ohio v. Mark A. Price…
“We are satisfied that the scientific principles underlying laser speed-measuring devices are sufficiently reliable and hold that the results of a laser speed-measuring device are admissible in Ohio courts without expert testimony establishing their reliability or the court taking judicial notice of the scientific principles underlying that technology.”
Justice Stewart, Majority Opinion
“Because the majority…
“To say that the purpose of the rape-shield law is not furthered by excluding evidence of an accuser’s past sexual abuse is to vastly underestimate the insidiousness of victim blaming. We reject Jeffries’s narrow interpretation.”
Justice Donnelly, Opinion of the Court
On April 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision…
