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State ex rel. Ellis v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.

2024-1491

Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Nonexistent records are not public records, and a public-records requester’s failure to prove existence of requested public records means that the requester cannot show a clear legal right to relief or that the public office failed to comply with an obligation under Public Records Act—Relator failed to prove that department-specific policies and schedules existed—Private entities are presumed not to be subject to Public Records Act, and relator failed to rebut that presumption as to private food-services company—Writ and relator’s requests for statutory damages and court costs denied.

DeWine, J.

Slip Opinion No. 2026-Ohio-3770

9/29/2026

2026-Ohio-3770

State v. Bradley

2024-1715

Criminal law—Crim.R. 52(B)—For an error to be plain error, it must be a clear error under current law—The standard for whether an error affects a defendant’s substantial rights is whether the outcome would have been different, not whether it may have been different—Court of appeals erred in determining that trial court’s failure to give an unrequested jury instruction on transferred self-defense was plain error because current law did not clearly require the instruction and defendant failed to demonstrate that trial’s outcome would have been different had trial court instructed jury on transferred self-defense—Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

Deters, J.

Slip Opinion No. 2026-Ohio-3771

9/29/2026

2026-Ohio-3771

09/29/2026 Case Announcements

Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions—Disciplinary cases.

9/29/2026

2026-Ohio-3773

09/29/2026 Case Announcements #2

Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.

9/29/2026

2026-Ohio-3812

09/29/2026 Case Announcements #3

Motion and procedural rulings.

9/29/2026

2026-Ohio-3815

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