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04/17/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   4/17/2025 4/17/2025 2025-Ohio-1358
State ex rel. Mack v. Ohio State Hwy. Patrol Cent. Records 2024-1012Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—For each category of relator’s public-records request, respondent properly denied the request, produced the records, or averred that the records do not exist—Because relator has not shown that respondent failed to comply with an obligation under R.C. 149.43(B), relator is not entitled to statutory damages—Writ and request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1332 4/17/2025 4/17/2025 2025-Ohio-1332
Hayes v. Baldwin 2024-1042Habeas corpus—Following conviction, any error regarding issue of pretrial bail is moot—Inmate’s petition rendered moot by his subsequent conviction—Appeal dismissed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1333 4/17/2025 4/17/2025 2025-Ohio-1333
State ex rel. Tentman v. Sundermann 2024-0934Mandamus—Appellant failed to show that common pleas court patently and unambiguously lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to recognize Tennessee court’s jurisdiction—Appellant had and made use of adequate remedy in ordinary course of law by appealing from common pleas court’s judgment declining to exercise jurisdiction over his divorce and child-custody case—Court of appeals’ dismissal of petition affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1284 4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1284
Crozier v. Pipe Creek Conservancy, L.L.C. 2024-0034Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1291 4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1291
04/16/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1313
Disciplinary Counsel v. Dusing 2025-0399Attorneys at law—Reciprocal discipline from the Supreme Court of Kentucky—suspended from the practice of law in Ohio—Gov.Bar R. V(11)(F)(4).   4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1334
04/16/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals.   4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1347
04/16/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   4/16/2025 4/16/2025 2025-Ohio-1348
04/15/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   4/15/2025 4/15/2025 2025-Ohio-1283
04/15/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   4/15/2025 4/15/2025 2025-Ohio-1331
State ex rel. Schwarzmer v. Mazzone 2024-0469Prohibition—Mandamus—Common pleas court did not patently and unambiguously lack subject-matter jurisdiction to accept transfer of municipal-court case—Appellee had adequate remedy in ordinary course of law—Court of appeals’ judgment granting writs reversed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1246 4/15/2025 4/15/2025 2025-Ohio-1246
04/14/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released.   4/14/2025 4/14/2025 2025-Ohio-1295
04/14/2025 Case Announcements #2  Appeals not accepted for review.   4/14/2025 4/14/2025 2025-Ohio-1296
04/14/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   4/14/2025 4/14/2025 2025-Ohio-1323
04/11/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   4/11/2025 4/11/2025 2025-Ohio-1271
State ex rel. Johnston v. N. Olmsted City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. 2024-0462Mandamus—Teacher seeking higher salary and backpay had an adequate remedy in ordinary course of law by filing grievance under collective-bargaining agreement with school district—Court of appeals’ judgment granting school board’s motion for judgment on pleadings affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1233 4/10/2025 4/10/2025 2025-Ohio-1233
04/10/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   4/10/2025 4/10/2025 2025-Ohio-1248
04/09/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   4/9/2025 4/9/2025 2025-Ohio-1243
State ex rel. Mauk v. Sheldon 2023-1300Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—Relator failed to show by clear and convincing evidence that sheriff did not produce public records responsive to request No. 3—Sheriff failed to produce evidence to determine whether the information redacted from sheriff’s responses to request Nos. 6, 10, and 11 is exempt from disclosure—Writ denied in part and held in abeyance in part as to sheriff, and sheriff ordered to file under seal for in camera inspection unredacted copies of sheriff’s responses to request Nos. 6, 10, and 11—Because Ohio Department of Public Safety produced all records responsive to request No. 13, request for writ against department and its director is moot—Department produced all records responsive to request No. 13 within reasonable period and did not act in bad faith—Writ and requests for statutory damages, attorney fees, and court costs denied as to department and its director.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1221 4/9/2025 4/9/2025 2025-Ohio-1221
State ex rel. Ware v. Akron Police Dept. 2024-0718Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—Relator failed to establish entitlement to writ compelling respondent to produce requested public records—Because relator failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that he sent public-records request to respondent by certified mail, relator is not entitled to statutory damages—Writ and request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1198 4/8/2025 4/8/2025 2025-Ohio-1198
04/08/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Miscellaneous dismissals.   4/8/2025 4/8/2025 2025-Ohio-1231
In re Resignation of Green 2025-0321Attorneys at law—Resignation with disciplinary action pending—Gov.Bar R. VI(11)(C).   4/7/2025 4/7/2025 2025-Ohio-1208
04/07/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals.   4/7/2025 4/7/2025 2025-Ohio-1210
04/04/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   4/4/2025 4/4/2025 2025-Ohio-1197
04/03/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   4/3/2025 4/3/2025 2025-Ohio-1176
04/03/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   4/3/2025 4/3/2025 2025-Ohio-1196
04/02/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   4/2/2025 4/2/2025 2025-Ohio-1166
04/02/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions without opinions.   4/2/2025 4/2/2025 2025-Ohio-1177
04/01/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   4/1/2025 4/1/2025 2025-Ohio-1090
03/31/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released—Motion and procedural rulings.   3/31/2025 3/31/2025 2025-Ohio-1106
State ex rel. Ealom v. Booth 2024-0688Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—Public-records requester not entitled to writ, because he failed to present evidence to rebut respondent’s averment in affidavit that no responsive records exist for the first two public-records requests and because requester already has copies of records containing the information he asked for in his third public-records request—Writ and requests for statutory damages, court costs, and attorney fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1025 3/27/2025 3/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1025
State ex rel. Adkins v. Cole 2024-0740, 2024-0747, 2024-0846, and 2024-0856Mandamus—Public-records requests—Inmate failed to show by clear and convincing evidence that prison failed to provide kites he had sent to prison library, that prison possesses or has control over kites he sent to third-party vendor that supplies and services electronic tablets provided to inmates, or that before providing copy to him prison removed any fields from kite he had requested—Inmate failed to show existence of inmate sign-in sheet he had requested, admits that he has received property-room form and grievance he requested, and failed to provide evidence refuting prison’s assertion that prison video footage he requested no longer exists—Writs denied, relator’s requests for statutory damages denied in case Nos. 2024-0740, 2024-0747, and 2024-0846, and $1,000 in statutory damages awarded in case No. 2024-0856.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1026 3/27/2025 3/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1026
State ex rel. Ames v. Concord Twp. Bd. of Trustees 2024-1160Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Because all records responsive to public-records request were provided, court of appeals correctly determined that petition for writ was moot—Upon finding that a writ claim is moot, the correct disposition is to deny the writ—Court of appeals’ judgment modified and judgment denying petition as moot entered.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1027 3/27/2025 3/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1027
03/27/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   3/27/2025 3/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1054
03/26/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review.   3/26/2025 3/26/2025 2025-Ohio-1023
03/26/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   3/26/2025 3/26/2025 2025-Ohio-1043
State ex rel. Robinson v. Clemans 2024-0709Mandamus—Public-records requests—Inmate failed to obtain leave of sentencing court before requesting arrest report as required by R.C. 149.43(B)(8) and failed to submit evidence showing that five other records he requested exist—Writ and relator’s request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1021 3/26/2025 3/26/2025 2025-Ohio-1021
State ex rel. Ware v. Gabbard 2024-0717Mandamus—Relator failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that he sent a public-records request to city’s chief of police against whom he filed action or city’s police department—Writ and relator’s request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1022 3/26/2025 3/26/2025 2025-Ohio-1022
03/25/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   3/25/2025 3/25/2025 2025-Ohio-1024
03/25/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   3/25/2025 3/25/2025 2025-Ohio-1042
State ex rel. Duncan v. Chambers-Smith 2024-0518Mandamus—Jail-time credit—Appellant failed to establish entitlement to writ—Alleged errors regarding award of jail-time credit not cognizable in mandamus—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-978 3/25/2025 3/25/2025 2025-Ohio-978
State ex rel. Watkins v. McNamara 2024-0585Prohibition—Writ cannot be issued against appellee-prosecutor because she does not exercise judicial or quasi-judicial power—Inmate not entitled to writ against appellee-judge because judge had subject-matter jurisdiction to rule on inmate’s motion for final, appealable order and inmate had adequate remedy in ordinary course of law by appeal—Court of appeals’ dismissal of petition affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-979 3/25/2025 3/25/2025 2025-Ohio-979
03/24/2025 Case Announcements  Affidavits of disqualification.   3/24/2025 3/24/2025 2025-Ohio-1004
03/24/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   3/24/2025 3/24/2025 2025-Ohio-1005
In re Lewis 2025-0392On certification of default of child support order.   3/21/2025 3/21/2025 2025-Ohio-977
03/21/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   3/21/2025 3/21/2025 2025-Ohio-982
03/20/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   3/20/2025 3/20/2025 2025-Ohio-943
03/20/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   3/20/2025 3/20/2025 2025-Ohio-945
Disciplinary Counsel v. Kegley 2024-1721Judges—Misconduct—Violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct—Conditionally stayed six-month suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-910 3/20/2025 3/20/2025 2025-Ohio-910
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