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10/24/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/24/2025 10/24/2025 2025-Ohio-4872
Lewis v. MedCentral Health Sys. 2024-0451Civil procedure—Civ.R. 15—R.C. 2323.451(D)(1) and (2)—A plaintiff is not required to comply with Civ.R. 15(D) to name additional defendants in an amended complaint under R.C. 2323.451(D)(1), and the 180-day extension under R.C. 2323.451(D)(2) is not limited to newly discovered defendants—Because appellants were additional defendants under R.C. 2323.451(D)(1) and (2) and because appellee properly amended her complaint to join them as defendants in her medical-claim action, the 180-day extension applied and her action against appellants was timely commenced—Court of appeals’ judgment reversing trial court’s dismissal of appellee’s claims against appellants affirmed.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4802 10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4802
State ex rel. Mason v. Supervisor of Edn., Warren Corr. Inst. 2025-0275Public-records requests—Mandamus—Prior-civil-actions affidavit that inmate filed under R.C. 2969.25(A) when he commenced mandamus action was deficient for his failure to specify court in which he had filed one of his previous cases—Inmate’s omission was not cured by his amendment of affidavit, because a compliant affidavit was due when original complaint was filed—Court of appeals correctly granted prison’s motion to dismiss but erred in dismissing action with prejudice—Judgment reversed and cause remanded for entry of dismissal without prejudice.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4803 10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4803
Disciplinary Counsel v. Taylor 2025-0482Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of Rules of Professional Conduct—Failure to attend disciplinary hearing—Eighteen-month suspension with six months conditionally stayed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4804 10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4804
10/23/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions.   10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4831
10/23/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Disciplinary cases.   10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4832
10/23/2025 Case Announcements #3  Merit decisions without opinions.   10/23/2025 10/23/2025 2025-Ohio-4835
State v. Rogers 2024-0872Trials—Jury selection—Voir dire—In determining whether a juror was actually biased, a reviewing court must consider entire record and determine whether it demonstrates that juror was actually biased against the defendant—Court of appeals did not err by considering group answers to questions addressed to all prospective jurors in determining whether juror was biased—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.DeWineSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4794 10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4794
State ex rel. DeVore v. Adult Parole Auth. 2025-0128Mandamus—GPS ankle monitor that appellant sought to compel removal of has been removed—Court of appeals’ denial of complaint as moot affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4795 10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4795
10/22/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals not accepted for review.   10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4796
10/22/2025 Case Announcements #3  Merit decisions without opinions.   10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4813
10/22/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4816
10/22/2025 Case Announcements #4  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/22/2025 10/22/2025 2025-Ohio-4823
Gordon v. Smith 2024-1673Habeas corpus—Inmate failed to state a claim for habeas relief in that his maximum sentence had not expired and he had adequate remedies in ordinary course of law—Court of appeals’ judgment granting warden’s motion to dismiss affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4768 10/21/2025 10/21/2025 2025-Ohio-4768
State ex rel. Harris v. Schwendeman 2025-0124Mandamus—Public-records requests—Inmate failed to timely assert claim that court of appeals erroneously interpreted R.C. 2969.25(A) as requiring disclosure of each civil action and appeal of a civil action he had filed in prior five years—Court of appeals did not err in dismissing inmate’s action for his failure to timely disclose a prior federal appeal or in failing to grant him leave to amend his pleading under Civ.R. 15(A)—Court of appeals’ judgment granting appellee’s motion for judgment on pleadings affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4769 10/21/2025 10/21/2025 2025-Ohio-4769
10/21/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Miscellaneous dismissals.   10/21/2025 10/21/2025 2025-Ohio-4800
10/21/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/21/2025 10/21/2025 2025-Ohio-4817
10/20/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/20/2025 10/20/2025 2025-Ohio-4776
10/20/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/20/2025 10/20/2025 2025-Ohio-4801
10/17/2025 Case Announcements  Miscellaneous dismissals.   10/17/2025 10/17/2025 2025-Ohio-4767
10/17/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions.   10/17/2025 10/17/2025 2025-Ohio-4775
Durig v. Youngstown 2024-0534Political-subdivision immunity—R.C. Ch. 2744—A party does not preserve a defense of R.C. Ch. 2744 political-subdivision immunity by a general assertion that a complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted—Civ.R. 15(A)—Unjustified and prejudicial inaction by appellant supports trial court’s decision to deny appellant leave to amend its answer under Civ.R. 15(A)—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4719 10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4719
State ex rel. Berry v. Indus. Comm. 2024-1208Workers’ compensation—Mandamus—Violations of specific safety requirements (“VSSRs”)—Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7)—Judicial branch must defer to Industrial Commission’s factual determinations but not to its legal interpretations of specific safety requirements—TWISM Ents., L.L.C. v. State Bd. of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors and In re Application of Alamo Solar I, L.L.C., followed—Court of appeals correctly concluded that whether large excavator was a power shovel does not determine whether Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) was applicable but erred by (1) proceeding to evaluate the evidence and determine that employer violated Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) because large excavator was a “heavy object[] on a level above and near” trench where VSSR applicant was working when he was injured and (2) holding that staff hearing officer abused her discretion by not finding a violation of Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) based on location of dump truck and fill dirt—Court of appeals’ judgment granting writ ordering commission to issue VSSR award reversed and limited writ ordering commission to resolve certain factual issues it did not reach when denying VSSR application granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4720 10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4720
10/16/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Disciplinary cases.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4738
10/16/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4740
10/16/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4745
State ex rel. Staple v. State Emp. Relations Bd. 2024-0279Mandamus—Labor relations—Public employees—R.C. Ch. 4117—State Employment Relations Board abused its discretion in dismissing public employee’s unfair-labor-practice charge against employer because employer did not have authority to determine that employee’s notice to arbitrate was untimely under collective-bargaining agreement—Board abused its discretion when it dismissed public employee’s unfair-labor-practice charge against union without providing basic rationale for dismissal—Board did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed public employee’s additional unfair-labor-practice charge against union, because union acted in accordance with public employee’s waiver of union representation—Court of appeals’ judgment granting writ of mandamus affirmed in part and reversed in part.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4698 10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4698
State ex rel. Gault v. Medina Cty. Court of Common Pleas Clerk 2024-0757 & 2024-0999R.C. 2303.20(H)—Former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1)—Under the plain text of former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1), a court of common pleas clerk may charge only one additional dollar total for the service of making a complete record under R.C. 2303.20(H), regardless of the number of pages that the record contains—Court of appeals’ judgment reversing trial court’s judgment interpreting R.C. 2303.20(H) and former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1) to mean that the clerk may charge two dollars per page for making a complete record affirmed.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4699 10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4699
10/15/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4732
10/15/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4733
10/15/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4739
10/14/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4678
State ex rel. Castellon v. Maloney 2024-1068Mandamus—Public-records requests—Relator failed to submit clear and convincing evidence establishing existence of a chain-of-custody record more extensive than the one already produced or of police department’s ability or duty to produce iPhone-data records in a human-readable format—Writ and relator’s requests for statutory damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4687 10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4687
State ex rel. Snodgrass v. Trumbull Corr. Inst. 2024-1203Mandamus—Public-records requests—Respondent failed to show that an exemption from the Public Records Act’s disclosure requirement applies—Writ granted and relator’s request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4688 10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4688
In re Warczak 2025-1339On certified entry of felony conviction.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4700
10/14/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4703
10/14/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4705
Disciplinary Counsel v. Wilson 2025-0623On certification of default.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4701
10/13/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released.   10/13/2025 10/13/2025 2025-Ohio-4696
10/13/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/13/2025 10/13/2025 2025-Ohio-4697
10/10/2025 Case Announcements  Appeals not accepted for review.   10/10/2025 10/10/2025 2025-Ohio-4694
10/09/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4660
10/09/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4661
10/09/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4662
10/07/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   10/7/2025 10/7/2025 2025-Ohio-4642
10/03/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4598
10/03/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4599
10/03/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4610
State ex rel. Hawkins v. Frederick 2024-1761Habeas corpus—Appellant’s maximum sentence has not expired, and he failed to show that trial court patently and unambiguously lacked jurisdiction to sentence him or that his commuted sentence is void—Governor’s exercise of clemency power merely substitutes a lesser punishment and therefore does not create a new judgment subject to appeal or jurisdictional challenge—Federal Ex Post Facto Clause forbids neither the commutation of a sentence nor a commuted sentence imposed under an otherwise constitutional statute and therefore does not apply to appellant’s commuted sentence—Court of appeals’ judgment granting warden’s motion to dismiss affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4540 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4540
Lowe v. Smith 2025-0064Habeas corpus—Even if preserved, any procedural irregularity in assignment of visiting judge to try appellant’s criminal trial would render appellant’s convictions and sentence voidable, not void—Appellant failed to show that trial court patently and unambiguously lacked subject-matter jurisdiction—Court of appeals’ judgment granting warden’s motion to dismiss granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4541 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4541
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