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10/17/2025 Case Announcements  Miscellaneous dismissals.   10/17/2025 10/17/2025 2025-Ohio-4767
Durig v. Youngstown 2024-0534Political-subdivision immunity—R.C. Ch. 2744—A party does not preserve a defense of R.C. Ch. 2744 political-subdivision immunity by a general assertion that a complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted—Civ.R. 15(A)—Unjustified and prejudicial inaction by appellant supports trial court’s decision to deny appellant leave to amend its answer under Civ.R. 15(A)—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4719 10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4719
State ex rel. Berry v. Indus. Comm. 2024-1208Workers’ compensation—Mandamus—Violations of specific safety requirements (“VSSRs”)—Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7)—Judicial branch must defer to Industrial Commission’s factual determinations but not to its legal interpretations of specific safety requirements—TWISM Ents., L.L.C. v. State Bd. of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors and In re Application of Alamo Solar I, L.L.C., followed—Court of appeals correctly concluded that whether large excavator was a power shovel does not determine whether Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) was applicable but erred by (1) proceeding to evaluate the evidence and determine that employer violated Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) because large excavator was a “heavy object[] on a level above and near” trench where VSSR applicant was working when he was injured and (2) holding that staff hearing officer abused her discretion by not finding a violation of Adm.Code 4123:1-3-13(E)(7) based on location of dump truck and fill dirt—Court of appeals’ judgment granting writ ordering commission to issue VSSR award reversed and limited writ ordering commission to resolve certain factual issues it did not reach when denying VSSR application granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4720 10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4720
10/16/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Disciplinary cases.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4738
10/16/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4740
10/16/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/16/2025 10/16/2025 2025-Ohio-4745
State ex rel. Staple v. State Emp. Relations Bd. 2024-0279Mandamus—Labor relations—Public employees—R.C. Ch. 4117—State Employment Relations Board abused its discretion in dismissing public employee’s unfair-labor-practice charge against employer because employer did not have authority to determine that employee’s notice to arbitrate was untimely under collective-bargaining agreement—Board abused its discretion when it dismissed public employee’s unfair-labor-practice charge against union without providing basic rationale for dismissal—Board did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed public employee’s additional unfair-labor-practice charge against union, because union acted in accordance with public employee’s waiver of union representation—Court of appeals’ judgment granting writ of mandamus affirmed in part and reversed in part.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4698 10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4698
State ex rel. Gault v. Medina Cty. Court of Common Pleas Clerk 2024-0757 & 2024-0999R.C. 2303.20(H)—Former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1)—Under the plain text of former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1), a court of common pleas clerk may charge only one additional dollar total for the service of making a complete record under R.C. 2303.20(H), regardless of the number of pages that the record contains—Court of appeals’ judgment reversing trial court’s judgment interpreting R.C. 2303.20(H) and former R.C. 2303.201(B)(1) to mean that the clerk may charge two dollars per page for making a complete record affirmed.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4699 10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4699
10/15/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4732
10/15/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4733
10/15/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/15/2025 10/15/2025 2025-Ohio-4739
10/14/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4678
State ex rel. Castellon v. Maloney 2024-1068Mandamus—Public-records requests—Relator failed to submit clear and convincing evidence establishing existence of a chain-of-custody record more extensive than the one already produced or of police department’s ability or duty to produce iPhone-data records in a human-readable format—Writ and relator’s requests for statutory damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4687 10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4687
State ex rel. Snodgrass v. Trumbull Corr. Inst. 2024-1203Mandamus—Public-records requests—Respondent failed to show that an exemption from the Public Records Act’s disclosure requirement applies—Writ granted and relator’s request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4688 10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4688
In re Warczak 2025-1339On certified entry of felony conviction.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4700
10/14/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4703
10/14/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4705
Disciplinary Counsel v. Wilson 2025-0623On certification of default.   10/14/2025 10/14/2025 2025-Ohio-4701
10/13/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released.   10/13/2025 10/13/2025 2025-Ohio-4696
10/13/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/13/2025 10/13/2025 2025-Ohio-4697
10/10/2025 Case Announcements  Appeals not accepted for review.   10/10/2025 10/10/2025 2025-Ohio-4694
10/09/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4660
10/09/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4661
10/09/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/9/2025 10/9/2025 2025-Ohio-4662
10/07/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   10/7/2025 10/7/2025 2025-Ohio-4642
10/03/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4598
10/03/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4599
10/03/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/3/2025 10/3/2025 2025-Ohio-4610
State ex rel. Hawkins v. Frederick 2024-1761Habeas corpus—Appellant’s maximum sentence has not expired, and he failed to show that trial court patently and unambiguously lacked jurisdiction to sentence him or that his commuted sentence is void—Governor’s exercise of clemency power merely substitutes a lesser punishment and therefore does not create a new judgment subject to appeal or jurisdictional challenge—Federal Ex Post Facto Clause forbids neither the commutation of a sentence nor a commuted sentence imposed under an otherwise constitutional statute and therefore does not apply to appellant’s commuted sentence—Court of appeals’ judgment granting warden’s motion to dismiss affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4540 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4540
Lowe v. Smith 2025-0064Habeas corpus—Even if preserved, any procedural irregularity in assignment of visiting judge to try appellant’s criminal trial would render appellant’s convictions and sentence voidable, not void—Appellant failed to show that trial court patently and unambiguously lacked subject-matter jurisdiction—Court of appeals’ judgment granting warden’s motion to dismiss granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4541 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4541
State ex rel. Martre v. Reed 2025-0098Prohibition—Appellant failed to demonstrate that trial-court judge lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to rule on appellant’s motion for return of his cellphone after it was seized under a search warrant because even assuming that judge was required to treat the motion as a motion to suppress under R.C. 2981.03, a writ of prohibition is not the proper remedy—Court of appeals’ judgment granting trial judge’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim for prohibition relief affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4542 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4542
10/02/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4580
State ex rel. Hicks v. Adams Cty. Bd. of Elections 2025-1105Elections—Mandamus—Writ sought to order board of elections to cancel voter registration of county prosecutor based on challenge to prosecutor’s county of residence—Board’s records did not demonstrate that relator had clear entitlement to outright cancellation of prosecutor’s voter registration, and relator’s generic request in complaint for “any other relief” was not sufficient to request alternative mandamus relief of ordering board to hold a hearing under R.C. 3503.24(B)—Writ denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4582 10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4582
10/02/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions.   10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4591
10/02/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   10/2/2025 10/2/2025 2025-Ohio-4597
State ex rel. Rankin v. State 2024-1781Mandamus—Private-citizen affidavits—Appellant failed to establish that he has a clear legal right to prosecution of offenses he had alleged in his private-citizen affidavit or that prosecutors have a clear legal duty to prosecute the offenses—Court of appeals’ judgment granting prosecutors’ motion to dismiss appellant’s amended petition affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4483 10/1/2025 10/1/2025 2025-Ohio-4483
State ex rel. T.B. v. Brown 2025-0361Prohibition—Mandamus—Adoption—A juvenile court’s continuing jurisdiction to issue orders under R.C. 2151.353 and 2151.417 is not superseded by the filing of an adoption petition involving the same child—State ex rel. Davis v. Kennedy and In re Adoption of Ridenour distinguished—Proposed adoptive parents failed to show that juvenile-court magistrate’s prospective consideration and resolution of biological mother’s visitation motion is unauthorized by law and that juvenile-court judge has a clear legal duty to vacate his judgment entry lifting stay on the juvenile-court proceedings, reinstating the biological mother’s motion, and ordering that it be heard by the magistrate—Writs denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4484 10/1/2025 10/1/2025 2025-Ohio-4484
10/01/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review.   10/1/2025 10/1/2025 2025-Ohio-4537
10/01/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   10/1/2025 10/1/2025 2025-Ohio-4561
State ex rel. Harris v. Trelka 2024-1771Mandamus—R.C. 2969.25(A)—Inmate failed to list in affidavit of prior civil actions all appeals filed in previous five years—If appeal of a civil action falls within the parameters of R.C. 2969.25(A), it must be included in affidavit regardless of whether underlying civil action must be disclosed—Court of appeals’ judgment dismissing complaint affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4453 9/30/2025 9/30/2025 2025-Ohio-4453
State ex rel. Huwig v. Dept. of Health 2023-0936Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—Relator not entitled to spreadsheets of certain information maintained by Ohio Department of Health in the databases in which it compiles death-related information and COVID-19 vaccination information, because production of the requested spreadsheets would require department to create a new record—Writ and relator’s requests for statutory damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4454 9/30/2025 9/30/2025 2025-Ohio-4454
09/30/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   9/30/2025 9/30/2025 2025-Ohio-4476
09/30/2025 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions.   9/30/2025 9/30/2025 2025-Ohio-4538
09/30/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   9/30/2025 9/30/2025 2025-Ohio-4539
08/29/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   9/29/2025 9/29/2025 2025-Ohio-4497
09/29/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released—Miscellaneous dismissals.   9/29/2025 9/29/2025 2025-Ohio-4500
State ex rel. Springfield City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. Hamilton 2024-1425Mandamus—R.C. 133.18(A) and (H)—County auditor has no discretion to refuse to place voter-approved property-tax levy on tax list and duplicate for collection while voter-approved bonds issued by local school district board of education remain outstanding—Limited writ granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4427 9/25/2025 9/25/2025 2025-Ohio-4427
Krouskoupf v. Anderson 2024-1763Prohibition—R.C. 2929.19(B)(2)(g)—Judge who sentenced appellant retained jurisdiction to amend judge’s calculations of appellant’s jail-time credit while his sentence was on appeal—Court of appeals’ judgment granting judge’s motion to dismiss affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4428 9/25/2025 9/25/2025 2025-Ohio-4428
09/25/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   9/25/2025 9/25/2025 2025-Ohio-4459
State v. Clark 2024-0401 & 2024-0539Appellate procedure—App.R. 26(B)—An appellant’s brief in support of a reopened appeal must address appellate counsel’s deficient representation and the resulting prejudice—Court of appeals correctly confirmed its prior judgment in reopened appeal when appellant did not address how his prior appellate counsel was deficient and how he was prejudiced by that deficiency—Judgment affirmed.Shanahan, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-4410 9/24/2025 9/24/2025 2025-Ohio-4410
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