Sometimes the most fundamental questions yield the most contentious answers

It sounds like a trick question, doesn’t it? How long is one year? 12 months, right? 365 days (366 in a leap year)? Well, according to a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision, the answer depends on whether you’re counting forward from an event or computing a statutory deadline, and the distinction matters more than you might think.Continue Reading How long is one year?

Update: On November 2, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the case as improvidently allowed.

“You don’t run busses in Franklin County. You don’t have bus stops, you don’t have parking lots, you don’t have any of the essentials to a bus service?” Chief Justice O’Connor to counsel for GDRTA.

“You are familiar with

Update: On November 2, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the case as improvidently allowed.

Read the analysis of the oral argument in this case here.

On August 17, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority v. State Employment Relations Board et