| Case No. | Case Caption | Case Status | Date
Accepted | Case Issue |
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2018-1177
|
State of Ohio
v.
Justin Hawkins
|
OPEN
|
9/12/2018
| “Does the discrepancy between the paint color of a vehicle and the paint color listed in vehicle registration records accessed by a police officer provide the officer with reasonable articulable suspicion to perform a lawful investigative traffic stop where the officer believes the vehicle or its displayed license plates may be stolen?” |
|
2018-0883
|
Barbara Rieger
v.
Giant Eagle, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
9/12/2018
| Proposition of Law No. 2: The Eighth District has created a new standard for malice that makes the mere possibility of harm from the underlying tortious conduct – no matter how improbable – sufficient for an award of punitive damages. |
|
2018-0852
|
David Ayers
v.
City of Cleveland, et al.
|
OPEN
|
8/29/2018
| Proposition of Law No. I: Subsection 2744.07(A)(2) reflects the
legislature’s intent to permit a judgment creditor to proceed directly
against an indemnitor |
|
2018-0797
|
State of Ohio
v.
Darren Taylor
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
8/29/2018
| A trial court need not consider an inmate's present or future ability to pay court costs, or determine whether any exemption statutes prohibit collection from an inmate's account, when ruling on a post-conviction motion to vacate, stay, or remit court costs. |
|
2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 1: First Amendment protections and jurisprudence extend to speech published on the Internet, and, specifically, this Court’s decision in Lansdowne v. Beacon Journal Publ’g Co., which set the fault standard in private-figure defamation cases, applies equally to statements published on the Internet. |
|
2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 2: The Tenth District’s “stronger duty” requirement is unlawfully vague – it sets a “standard” that is untethered to principles of First Amendment jurisprudence |
|
2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 3: The law does not require the news media to conduct their own investigation or withhold publishing the news until they are able to contact the persons implicated or otherwise inquire into and corroborate official information supplied by law enforcement. |
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2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 4: Persons are not liable under the law of defamation for statements that they do not publish or authorize another to publish. |
|
2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 5: In determining whether a statement is defamatory, a court must review the totality of the circumstances and by reading the statement in the context of the entire publication to determine whether a reasonable reader would interpret it as defamatory. |
|
2018-0792
|
Aaron Anderson et al.
v.
WBNS-TV, Inc.
|
OPEN
|
8/15/2018
| PROPOSITION OF LAW NO. 6: The essential elements of a defamation claim do not turn on the relative financial condition of the plaintiff and defendant. |
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