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12/20/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/20/2024 12/20/2024 2024-Ohio-5922
12/20/2024 Case Announcements #2  Mediation matters.   12/20/2024 12/20/2024 2024-Ohio-5924
12/18/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/18/2024 12/18/2024 2024-Ohio-5897
12/18/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/18/2024 12/18/2024 2024-Ohio-5899
12/17/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   12/17/2024 12/17/2024 2024-Ohio-5878
12/16/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/16/2024 12/16/2024 2024-Ohio-5855
12/13/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/13/2024 12/13/2024 2024-Ohio-5828
12/11/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/11/2024 12/11/2024 2024-Ohio-5790
State v. Hickman 2023-0889R.C. 2945.401—Changes to commitment conditions following finding of not guilty by reason of insanity—Trial court’s review of recommendation for change to nonsecured status or termination of commitment—A trial court must use its discretion to “approve, disapprove, or modify the recommendation,” R.C. 2945.401(I), after considering all relevant factors, including those listed in R.C. 2945.401(E)(1) through (6)—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5747 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5747
State v. Miree 2022-1449Criminal law—Self-defense—R.C. 2901.09—Retroactive application—Trial court correctly applied former version of self-defense statute to crimes committed before amended statute’s effective date—Judgment affirmed.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5714 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5714
Reese v. Davis 2024-1138Habeas corpus—Petitioner has served maximum prison sentence of 23 years and is entitled to immediate release—Writ granted.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5755 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5755
Phoenix Lighting Group, L.L.C. v. Genlyte Thomas Group, L.L.C. 2023-0631Tort—Postjudgment attorney fees—Attorney-fee issue was settled by this court’s mandate in prior appeal—Trial court erred in considering and granting motion for postjudgment attorney fees and expenses—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court with instructions.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5729 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5729
State v. Alley 2024-0288Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5746 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5746
State v. Dunn 2023-1501Criminal law—Sufficiency of the evidence—Drug trafficking—R.C. 2925.03—Sufficient evidence was presented at trial concerning the “in the vicinity of a juvenile” enhancement in R.C. 2925.03(C)(1)(b)—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5742 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5742
State ex rel. Teagarden v. Igwe 2023-1565Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Without submitting evidence that respondent created or maintained a requested record, relator has not proved by clear and convincing evidence that respondent violated Public Records Act by referring relator to where the requested documents were posted—A public-records request does not need to use particular language to invoke Public Records Act, but it must be clear that the requester is requesting a public record instead of merely asking for assistance in locating it—Writ granted in part and denied in part, and statutory damages awarded in amount of $1,000.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5772 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5772
12/10/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5775
Shields v. Bur. of Workers' Comp. 2023-0996Workers’ compensation—Mandatory statutory attorney fees—Court of appeals did not err in remanding issue of attorney fees to trial court upon motion filed after court of appeals had affirmed lower-court judgment—Judgment affirmed.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5743 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5743
Stull v. Summa Health Sys. 2023-0352Civil law—Discovery—Peer-review privilege—Trial court erroneously limited its own power to control discovery process when it held that factual ambiguities in affidavit testimony prevented hospital from claiming that residency file was protected by peer-review privilege—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court to conduct in camera review of residency file.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5718 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5718
12/10/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5776
State v. Smith 2023-1289Criminal law—Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution—Absent witness’s statements to police officer captured on officer’s body-camera video were testimonial because officer was not responding to an ongoing emergency when those statements were made, and admission of those statements at trial violated defendant’s right to confrontation—Absent witness’s statements to EMTs captured on the same body-camera video were nontestimonial because those statements were made for the purpose of receiving medical care, and admission of those statements at trial did not violate the Confrontation Clause—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5745 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5745
State v. Kennedy 2023-1299Criminal law—Judicial release—R.C. 2929.20—Judicial-release eligibility is determined separately for each stated prison term, informed by the aggregate of all nonmandatory prison terms imposed—Judgment reversed and cause remanded.Stewart, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5728 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5728
In re B.C.A. 2023-1260Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5761 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5761
State v. Wilcox 2023-1204Criminal law—Confrontation Clause of Sixth Amendment to United States Constitution—Absent witness’s statements to law-enforcement officers captured on body-camera video that were given before defendant’s apprehension were nontestimonial because officers were responding to an ongoing emergency—Absent witness’s statements captured on body-camera video after defendant’s apprehension were testimonial, and admission of those statements violated defendant’s right to confrontation—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5719 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5719
Sherwin-Williams Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London 2023-0255Insurance—Insurers of paint company that marketed and sold lead paint are not obligated to indemnify paint company for payments that paint company made into abatement fund to mitigate hazards of lead paint—Because abatement-fund payment was made to prevent future harm rather than compensate for past harm, payment was not “damages” covered under insurance contracts—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of insurers reinstated.Deters, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5773 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5773
In re Natl. Prescription Opiate Litigation 2023-1155Torts—Products liability—Public nuisance—Ohio Product Liability Act, R.C. 2307.71 et seq.—All common-law public-nuisance claims arising from the sale of a product have been abrogated by Ohio Product Liability Act—Certified question of state law answered in the affirmative.Deters, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5744 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5744
State ex rel. Berry v. Booth 2023-1163Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Respondents’ delay in providing requested documents was not unreasonable—Writ and statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5774 12/10/2024 12/10/2024 2024-Ohio-5774
State v. Beatty 2022-1290Criminal law—R.C. 2929.41(A) and 2929.14(B) and (C)—Prison terms for multiple firearm specifications—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court with instructions that it amend its sentence to run the two discretionary prison terms imposed for the firearm specifications concurrently with each other and with the other prison terms imposed.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5684 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5684
State ex rel. Prinkey v. Emerine's Towing, Inc. 2024-0652Workers’ compensation—R.C. 4123.58(G)—New and changed circumstances—Industrial Commission’s order must state the evidence on which it relied—Judgment affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5713 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5713
State v. Grad 2023-0213Newly discovered evidence—Crim.R. 33(A)(6)—Standards for granting a hearing on a motion for leave to file a motion for new trial—Abuse of discretion—Judgment reversed.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5710 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5710
Total Renal Care, Inc. v. Harris 2023-1056Taxation—R.C. 5751.02—Commercial-activity tax—R.C. 5751.033(I)—Ohio Adm.Code 5703-29-17(A)—Ohio Adm.Code 5703-29-17(C)(28)—Healthcare provider’s gross receipts for service of providing dialysis to patients in Ohio properly sitused to Ohio because purchasers of dialysis services received benefit of their purchase in Ohio—Board of Tax Appeals’ decision affirmed.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5685 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5685
State ex rel. Culgan v. Jefferson Cty. Clerk of Courts 2023-0959Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Grand-juror names and grand-jury-foreperson signature are public records—Writ granted in part and denied in part.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5699 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5699
Goomai v. H&E Ent., L.L.C. 2023-1541Civil law—Deceptive Trade Practices Act—Attorney’s fees—A plaintiff must obtain actual damages or injunctive relief to be a prevailing party under Deceptive Trade Practices Act—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and trial court’s judgment reinstated.DeWine, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5711 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5711
12/09/2024 Case Announcements #2  Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5741
12/09/2024 Case Announcements  Official versions released—Merit decisions with opinions.   12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5740
State v. Riley 2023-1149Criminal law—R.C. 2953.73—Postconviction DNA testing—Trial court did not comport with the requirements of R.C. 2953.73(D) when, after summarily denying an application for postconviction DNA testing, it adopted verbatim proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law without engaging in the analysis required by R.C. 2953.73(D)—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5712 12/9/2024 12/9/2024 2024-Ohio-5712
State ex rel. Copley Ohio Newspapers, Inc. v. Akron 2022-1444Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Newspaper’s requests for the personnel files, discipline records, and internal investigations of unidentified law-enforcement officers were requests for information and improper public-records requests—Law-enforcement officers involved in shooting are “uncharged suspects” for purposes of R.C. 149.43(A)(2)(a) and confidential-law-enforcement-investigatory-records exception—Writ granted in part and denied in part.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5677 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5677
Schlegel v. Summit Cty. 2023-1232Political-subdivision immunity—R.C. 2744.02(B)(3)—Exception to political-subdivision immunity in R.C. 2744.02(B)(3) for negligent failure to keep public roads in repair and free of obstructions is not restricted to losses by users of roadway—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5678 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5678
12/06/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5701
Estate of Cook v. Montville Twp. 2023-1285Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5690 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5690
State ex rel. Martens v. Findlay Mun. Court 2024-0122Mandamus—Standing—Public-rights doctrine—State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Sheward overruled—Neither appellant nor future litigants may rely on Sheward’s public-right doctrine to bypass the traditional requirement that a litigant allege that he has been personally injured before he may seek relief in court—Appellant failed to establish taxpayer standing—Court of appeals’ dismissal of complaint for lack of standing affirmed.DeWine, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5667 12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5667
12/05/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5679
State ex rel. Rittman v. Spitler 2023-1388Prohibition—Judge in underlying case has jurisdiction and authority under R.C. 2723.01 to determine the case—Writ denied.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5668 12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5668
12/04/2024 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/4/2024 12/4/2024 2024-Ohio-5675
12/04/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/4/2024 12/4/2024 2024-Ohio-5666
12/03/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5646
12/03/2024 Case Announcements #2  Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5647
12/03/2024 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5648
12/02/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/2/2024 12/2/2024 2024-Ohio-5628
12/02/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/2/2024 12/2/2024 2024-Ohio-5629
Kennedy v. W. Res. Senior Care 2023-0372Medical malpractice—Out-of-state defendant—R.C. 2305.15(A)—Dormant Commerce Clause of United States Constitution—R.C. 2305.15(A) does not violate dormant Commerce Clause as applied to a physician who moved out of Ohio to practice medicine in another state—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Stewart, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5565 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5565
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