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Update: On November 12, 2020, the Court dismissed this case because the parties reached a settlement.

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On August 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Rayco Manufacturing, Inc. v. Murphy, Rogers, Sloss, & Gambel, a Professional Law Corporation, et al., 2019-1498. At…

“Bozso has not presented any contemporaneous evidence that avoiding deportation motivated his decisionmaking process at or around the time he entered his guilty pleas.”

Justice French, Majority Opinion

“Because there is a reasonable probability that Bozso would not have pleaded guilty but for the erroneous advice he received regarding the possibility of relief from deportation…

Update: On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Did the court order him [Chapman] not to have any more children or did the court order him to make reasonable efforts not to have any more children until his child support obligations…

Further update:

Pertinent to this remand is the holding in State v. Patrick that a constitutional challenge to a sentence is not barred by R.C. 2953.08(D)(3). So, on March 12, 2021, on remand, the Seventh District first determined on the authority of Patrick that it had jurisdiction to review Kinney’s Eighth Amendment challenge to his…

Update: On November 24, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Update: Read the analysis of the argument here.

On July 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Andrew Welsh-Huggins v. Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Jefferson County, Ohio…

Update: On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

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On July 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. London Chapman, 2019-1410. At issue in this…

Update: On November 10, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

“What in your view is perverse, what is it that’s reckless about the actions they (the educators) took—not in terms of reasonableness, but in terms of recklessness?”

Justice French, to counsel for A.R.

Update: On December 21, 2020, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently certified.

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Update: On July 17, 2020, the Court granted a continuance in the oral argument of this case until August 18, 2020.

On July 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in…

“The General Assembly has made consideration of the parties’ physical and mental health not only relevant but mandatory in determining both child custody and spousal support.”

Justice French, lead opinion

“Contrary to the lead opinion’s contention, then, parties to a divorce do not subject themselves to a fishing expedition through all of their physical- and…