| Case No. | Case Caption | Case Status | Date
Accepted | Case Issue |
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2020-1326
|
Beachwood City School District Bd. of Education
v.
Warrensville Heights City School District Bd. of Education
|
OPEN
|
1/22/2021
| Proposition of Law I: R.C. 3311.06 and O.A.C. Chapter 3301-89 require the Ohio Board of Education to receive and approve any negotiated agreement related to a school district’s request to transfer territory following a city’s annexation of property, regardless of whether the proposed agreement involves the physical transfer of territory or just tax revenues.
I. The plain language of R.C. 3311.06 required the Ohio Board of Education to approve the proposed agreement before it could become binding.
II. The plain language of O.A.C. Chapter 3301-89 confirms that the Ohio Board of Education needed to approve the proposed agreement.
Proposition of Law II: R.C. 5705.41 and 5705.412 apply to agreements to transfer tax revenues between school districts .
Proposition of Law III: R.C. Chapter 2744 provides immunity from tort claims arising from a school district’s negotiation of tax revenue-sharing agreements. |
|
2020-1304
|
State of Ohio
v.
Kennedy M. Burroughs
|
OPEN
|
1/22/2021
| Proposition of Law: When law enforcement officers seek to search a lawfully seized backpack, purse, or similar item in a person’s home, they must obtain a search warrant issued by a neutral, detached magistrate, if officer-safety concerns or exigent circumstances are not present. |
|
2020-1266
|
State of Ohio
v.
Edward Maddox
|
OPEN
|
12/28/2020
| "Is the constitutionality of the provisions of the Reagan Tokes Act, which allow the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections to administratively extend a criminal defendant's prison term beyond the presumptive minimum term, ripe for review on direct appeal from sentencing, or only after the defendant has served the minimum term and been subject to extension by application of the Act?" |
|
2020-1250
|
State of Ohio
v.
Ladasia Brooks
|
OPEN
|
12/30/2020
| "Does legislation that shifts the burden of proof on self-defense to the prosecution (2018 H.B. 228. eff. March 28, 2019) apply to all subsequent trials even when the alleged offenses occurred prior to the effective date of the act?" |
|
2020-1242
|
State of Ohio
v.
Marcus Toles
|
OPEN
|
11/24/2020
| Proposition of Law: The plurality decision in State v. Gwynne does not
supplant this Court’s prior ruling in State v. Marcum that an appellate court
may modify a sentence if it finds by clear and convincing evidence that the
record does not support that sentence. |
|
2020-1232
|
State of Ohio
v.
Damon K. Downard
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
12/29/2020
| SECOND PROPOSITION OF LAW
Challenges to the Reagan Tokes Act are ripe for review on direct appeal. |
|
2020-1189
|
State of Ohio
v.
Ladasia Brooks
|
OPEN
|
12/30/2020
| Proposition of Law No. I: 2018 H.B. 228, which shifted the burden of proof on
self-defense to the prosecution, applies to all trials held after the effective date
of the act, regardless of when the alleged offenses occurred. |
|
2020-1187
|
State of Ohio
v.
Daniel J. Campbell
|
OPEN
|
12/15/2020
| First Proposition of Law: Ohio courts may constitutionally require aprobationerto
consent to warrantless searches as a condition of community contol. |
|
2020-1187
|
State of Ohio
v.
Daniel J. Campbell
|
OPEN
|
12/15/2020
| Second Proposition of Law: A probation offrcer may rely in good faith upon a
warrantless consent to search community control condition agr€ed to by a probationer. |
|
2020-1187
|
State of Ohio
v.
Daniel J. Campbell
|
OPEN
|
12/15/2020
| Third Proposition of Law: An Ohio court may not impose the remedy of exclusion to an
otherwise constitutional search based upon a violation of R.C. 2951.02 where the General
Assembly provided for no remedy. |
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