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State v. Walker
| C-250310 | OBSTRUCTING OFFICIAL BUSINESS — SUPPRESSION OF EVIDENCE — UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE — PROBABLE CAUSE — FOURTH AMENDMENT — OBSTRUCTION — WEAPONS UNDER DISABILITY — BRUEN CHALLENGE — CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS: The arresting officers did not have probable cause to arrest defendant for obstructing official business where defendant was on a dirt bike that only lurched forward a few feet before stopping because this did not hinder or impede the officers in the execution of their duties. Where the police officers did not have probable cause to arrest defendant, the evidence collected from defendant should have been suppressed. Where a trial court must assess the dangerousness of a defendant, the defendant’s entire criminal record is relevant, and a defendant’s former conviction for drug trafficking creates a presumption of dangerousness, which defendant has the burden to rebut, that justifies disarmament. | Crouse | Hamilton |
10/23/2026
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10/23/2026
| 2026-Ohio-4187 |
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Estate of G.B. v. Hamilton Cty. Job & Family Servs.
| C-250376 | SUMMARY JUDGMENT — WRONGFUL DEATH — R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b) IMMUNITY — RECKLESSNESS: The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to a defendant child-services caseworker on the issue of immunity from plaintiff-estate’s wrongful-death claims arising from the death of a child because a reasonable trier of fact could find that the caseworker acted recklessly, and thus was not entitled to immunity under R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b), where the caseworker knew that the child’s mother lacked adequate food in the home and that the child appeared unwell, yet repeatedly failed to determine whether sufficient food was available in the home and failed to make collateral contacts to verify the mother’s representations that the child’s physicians and other service providers were unconcerned about the child’s weight. The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to a second defendant child-services caseworker on the issue of immunity from plaintiff-estate’s wrongful-death claims arising from the death of a child because a reasonable trier of fact could conclude that the caseworker acted recklessly, and therefore was not entitled to immunity under R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b), where the caseworker approved the child’s discharge from the hospital to mother despite knowledge that the child had been diagnosed with failure to thrive, that no medical cause for the condition had been identified, that the child was significantly underweight, and that hospital staff suspected abuse or neglect, yet failed to make collateral contacts with the child’s physicians or observe the child to investigate those concerns. The trial court erred in granting summary judgment on the issue of immunity to a third defendant child-services caseworker on plaintiff-estate’s wrongful-death claims related to death of a child where a reasonable finder of fact could conclude that the caseworker acted recklessly, and was therefore not entitled to immunity under R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b), when the caseworker, with knowledge that the child had been diagnosed with nonorganic failure to thrive, failed to see the child for over 40 days, failed to make collateral contacts with service providers, and failed to review the child’s medical records or child-services records. | Bock | Hamilton |
10/23/2026
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10/23/2026
| 2026-Ohio-4188 |
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State v. Ewing
| C-250695 | PROBABLE CAUSE — MOTION TO SUPRESS — DNA EVIDENCE — SEX OFFENSE: The trial court did not err in denying defendant’s motion to suppress where a Combined DNA Index System notification linking single-source semen DNA recovered from the victim’s rape kit to defendant established probable cause for his warrantless arrest. | Nestor | Hamilton |
10/23/2026
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10/23/2026
| 2026-Ohio-4189 |
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State v. Dawson
| C-260052 | SPEEDY TRIAL — MOTION TO DISMISS — PREJUDICE: The trial court did not err in denying defendant’s motion to dismiss based on a violation of his constitutional right to a speedy trial where defendant was not incarcerated during the nine-month delay between the filing of the charges and his arrest, and where that delay was occasioned by the State’s negligence but did not result in any prejudice to defendant. | Crouse | Hamilton |
10/23/2026
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10/23/2026
| 2026-Ohio-4190 |
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LVNV Funding, L.L.C. v. Higgins
| C-260078 | SUMMARY JUDGMENT — ASSIGNMENT — AUTHENTICATION — JUDICIAL NOTICE — EVIDENCE — STANDING: The trial court did not err in failing to consider defendant-debtor’s requests for judicial notice under Evid.R. 201(D) where the requests were not relevant to the issues at hand and did not pertain to adjudicative facts. The trial court’s determination that plaintiff-creditor was not a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was immaterial because defendant failed to submit evidence on the other required elements for a violation of the Act. Summary judgment was proper in an action on a credit-card account where plaintiff authenticated assignment documents via interrogatory responses and defendant lacked standing to challenge the validity of the assignment. | Nestor | Hamilton |
10/23/2026
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10/23/2026
| 2026-Ohio-4191 |
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