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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 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, …
“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…
Update: On June 10, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On January 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in City of Brook Park v. Joseph G. Rodojev, 2019-0056. At issue in this case is whether the results of any…
Update: On June 10, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read and analysis of the argument here.
On January 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in City of Brook Park v. Joseph G. Rodojev, 2019-0056. At issue…
On November 27, 2013, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On May 7, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State v. Daniel Arden Keck II, 2011-0686. The issue in this case is whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the…
On December 8, 2011 the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an opinion laying out when expert testimony is needed in a medical claim based on lack of informed consent. The case is White v. Leimbach, 2011-Ohio-6238.
Dr. Warren Leimbach, a neurosurgeon, successfully operated on Robert White for acute back pain caused by a…
Beginning in 2004, in Crawford v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court has written a series of very muscular decisions about the Confrontation Clause. Justice Scalia has been the leader of this trend.
In Crawford, the Court held that any testimonial statement from a witness who is unavailable to testify at trial can…
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the accused in criminal cases the right to confront witnesses against them. The U.S. Supreme Court has written a series of cases on this subject. Justice Antonin Scalia has been the leader of the strict confrontation clause jurisprudence that has evolved since. The most recent case, Bullcoming …
In 1990, in a murder case in which a woman shot her husband while he slept, the Ohio Supreme Court first recognized the battered-woman syndrome as a defense in a criminal case. In that case, State v. Koss, Brenda Koss and a number of other…
