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State ex rel. Mauk v. Sheldon 2023-1300Mandamus—Public-records requests—Respondents failed to satisfy their burden of proving that information other than Social Security numbers redacted from records produced to relator fell under a disclosure exemption—Improper redactions respondents made to records responsive to three public-records requests constitute improper denials of the requests under R.C. 149.43(B)(1), and respondents have failed to produce properly redacted records, warranting a statutory-damages award—An attorney-fee award would be disproportionate in that relator has prevailed on only a small fraction of her mandamus claims—Writ granted in part and denied in part, relator awarded $2,000 in statutory damages, relator’s request for court costs granted, and relator’s request for attorney fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5611 12/19/2025 12/19/2025 2025-Ohio-5611
State ex rel. Whitfield v. Burkhart 2025-0114Mandamus—Public-records requests—A public-information officer may not redirect a public-records request—Writ denied as moot and relator awarded $500 in statutory damages.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5612 12/19/2025 12/19/2025 2025-Ohio-5612
12/19/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   12/19/2025 12/19/2025 2025-Ohio-5650
12/19/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/19/2025 12/19/2025 2025-Ohio-5653
12/19/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/19/2025 12/19/2025 2025-Ohio-5667
State v. Balmert 2024-0669Criminal law—Aggravated vehicular assault—R.C. 2903.08(A)(1)(a)—Operating a vehicle while under influence of listed metabolite of controlled substance—R.C. 4511.19(A)(1)(j)(viii)(II)—Proximate cause is a separate and distinct element required for an aggravated-vehicular-assault conviction—Aggravated-vehicular-assault conviction was supported by sufficient evidence that the harm of injuring a person on the road was a foreseeable consequence of driving while having a concentration of marijuana metabolites in excess of legal limit—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5588 12/18/2025 12/18/2025 2025-Ohio-5588
State ex rel. Martens v. Findlay 2025-0104Mandamus—Relator lacked standing to bring action seeking to compel city to comply with tax ordinances and to enjoin its tax-collection efforts in that he had failed to allege an actual injury fairly traceable to city’s conduct that was personal to him rather than to taxpaying public in general—Court of appeals’ judgment granting city’s motion to dismiss affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5589 12/18/2025 12/18/2025 2025-Ohio-5589
12/18/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   12/18/2025 12/18/2025 2025-Ohio-5620
State v. Gowdy 2024-0882Criminal law—Crim.R. 11(C)(2)— Trial court’s misstatements of law about Ohio’s self-defense statute and premature pretrial ruling on requested self-defense jury instruction did not render otherwise valid guilty plea unknowing, unintelligent, or involuntary—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Kennedy, C.J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5575 12/17/2025 12/17/2025 2025-Ohio-5575
State ex rel. Castellon v. Swallow 2025-0085Mandamus—Public-records requests—Respondents produced all responsive records in their possession except for buccal swab, which relator failed to address in his merit brief—Respondents did not start producing records responsive to relator’s February 23 and May 16, 2024 public-records requests until nine months after receiving the requests—Writ denied as moot, relator awarded $2,000 in statutory damages, and relator’s requests for court costs and attorney fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5576 12/17/2025 12/17/2025 2025-Ohio-5576
12/17/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Affidavits of disqualification—Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   12/17/2025 12/17/2025 2025-Ohio-5610
12/17/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   12/17/2025 12/17/2025 2025-Ohio-5617
State ex rel. Clark v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr. 2024-1363Mandamus—Public-records requests—Relator failed to show that latent recordings he requested currently exist or that they existed when public-records custodian received his public-records requests, and writ and relator’s request for statutory damages denied as to those public-records requests—Respondent provided copies of kites relator requested, and writ denied as moot and relator’s request for statutory damages denied as to that public-records request—Writ held in abeyance as to the post orders that relator requested, and respondent ordered to file under seal for in camera inspection copies of the post orders.DeWine, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5552 12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5552
State v. Bostick 2024-0458Criminal law—Crim.R. 33(A)(6) requires that a trial court conduct an evidentiary hearing on a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, but it does not require that the hearing be a formal, oral hearing—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Deters, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5559 12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5559
12/16/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions.   12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5578
12/16/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5579
12/16/2025 Administrative Actions #2  Administrative actions.   12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5586
12/16/2025 Administrative Actions #3  Administrative actions.   12/16/2025 12/16/2025 2025-Ohio-5587
In re Resigantion of Ulinski 2025-1153Attorneys at law—Resignation with disciplinary action pending—Gov.Bar R. VI(11)(C).   12/15/2025 12/15/2025 2025-Ohio-5553
In re Resigantion of McMahon 2025-1409Attorneys at law—Resignation with disciplinary action pending—Gov.Bar R. VI(11)(C).   12/15/2025 12/15/2025 2025-Ohio-5554
12/15/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   12/15/2025 12/15/2025 2025-Ohio-5563
In re Resignation of Westfall 2025-1454Attorneys at law—Resignation with disciplinary action pending—Gov.Bar R. VI(11)(C).   12/12/2025 12/12/2025 2025-Ohio-5540
12/12/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   12/12/2025 12/12/2025 2025-Ohio-5542
12/11/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/11/2025 12/11/2025 2025-Ohio-5502
12/11/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   12/11/2025 12/11/2025 2025-Ohio-5539
Disciplinary Counsel v. Greulich 2025-1512On certificate of default.   12/10/2025 12/10/2025 2025-Ohio-5480
12/10/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Disciplinary cases.   12/10/2025 12/10/2025 2025-Ohio-5488
12/10/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/10/2025 12/10/2025 2025-Ohio-5501
12/09/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/9/2025 12/9/2025 2025-Ohio-5429
12/09/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/9/2025 12/9/2025 2025-Ohio-5477
12/09/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/9/2025 12/9/2025 2025-Ohio-5478
12/09/2025 Case Announcements #4  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/9/2025 12/9/2025 2025-Ohio-5489
12/09/2025 Case Announcements #5  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/9/2025 12/9/2025 2025-Ohio-5490
12/08/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released—Motion and procedural rulings.   12/8/2025 12/8/2025 2025-Ohio-5452
Disciplinary Counsel v. Fusco 2024-1404Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Indefinite suspension with no credit for time served under interim felony suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5397 12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5397
Disciplinary Counsel v. Rossi 2024-1722Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, including making false statement in a pleading and attempting to thwart prosecution of a criminal case—Six-month suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5398 12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5398
12/05/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5425
12/05/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5426
12/05/2025 Administrative Actions #2  Administrative actions.   12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5428
12/05/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/5/2025 12/5/2025 2025-Ohio-5443
State v. Jones 2023-0772Criminal law—R.C. 2945.67(A)—App.R. 5(C)—Under App.R. 5(C), in seeking leave to appeal certain trial-court decisions, the State must claim that errors occurred in trial-court proceedings and must show how likely it is that those errors did in fact occur—Court of appeals erred in denying the State leave to appeal trial court’s decision granting appellee a new trial by failing to determine whether the State had demonstrated a high enough probability of trial-court error to warrant a discretionary appeal—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to court of appeals.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5389 12/4/2025 12/4/2025 2025-Ohio-5389
Disciplinary Counsel v. Gill 2025-0483Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct relating to attorney’s client trust accounts—Two-year suspension with 18 months conditionally stayed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5392 12/4/2025 12/4/2025 2025-Ohio-5392
Disciplinary Counsel v. Collins 2025-0793Attorneys—Misconduct—Misrepresentation in violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Conditionally stayed two-year suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5393 12/4/2025 12/4/2025 2025-Ohio-5393
12/04/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   12/4/2025 12/4/2025 2025-Ohio-5408
Sparks v. Frederick 2025-0424Habeas corpus—Statement contained in affidavit of indigency that inmate submitted with his habeas petition does not set forth inmate-account balance “for each of the preceding six months,” as required by R.C. 2969.25(C)(1)—Court of appeals’ dismissal of petition affirmed.Per CuraimSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5370 12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5370
State ex rel. Papageorgiou v. Avalotis Corp. 2025-0429Workers’ compensation—Industrial Commission did not abuse its discretion in denying claimant’s request for temporary-total-disability compensation after finding that he had voluntarily abandoned his employment by not accepting employer’s job offer of light-duty work following work-related injury—Court of appeals’ judgment denying writ of mandamus affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5371 12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5371
Disciplinary Counsel v. Mollica 2025-0792Attorneys—Misconduct—Misrepresentation in violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Conditionally stayed one-year suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-5372 12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5372
12/03/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review.   12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5386
12/03/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions.   12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5387
12/03/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   12/3/2025 12/3/2025 2025-Ohio-5395
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