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Aramark Corp. v. Harris 2023-1540Taxation—Commercial-activity tax (“CAT”)—Gross-receipts exclusion in context of agency relationship—R.C. 5751.01(F)(2)(l) and (N)(2)—R.C.5751.02(A)—Corporation not entitled to gross-receipts exclusion under CAT statute, because by keeping for itself reimbursements it received from its clients for goods and services it purchased for those clients, corporation did not hold reimbursements on behalf of or as representative of another and therefore was not acting as clients’ agent—Board of Tax Appeals’ decision affirmed.ShanahanSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2114 6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2114
State ex rel. Ayers v. Sackett 2024-0715Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Relator failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that requested security-footage records exist—Requested retention schedule is a document received and used or followed by public office and therefore subject to disclosure—Writ granted in part and denied in part, statutory damages awarded in amount of $1,000, and relator’s request for court costs denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2115 6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2115
State ex rel. Macksyn v. Spencer 2024-0875Mandamus—Public-records requests—Respondents ordered to, within 21 days, either (1) produce the emails Macksyn requested in his March 12, April 4, and April 21, 2024 public-records requests and certify date the emails were produced for each request or (2) certify for each request that no responsive emails exist—Relator’s request that respondents be ordered to produce other records denied—Limited writ granted and relator’s request for statutory damages deferred pending respondents’ compliance with limited writ.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2116 6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2116
State ex rel. Parikh v. Berkowitz 2024-1466Prohibition—Mandamus—County clerk of courts has a clear legal duty under R.C. 1901.31(E) to comply with municipal-court judges’ administrative order requiring him to restore online public access to all records in residential-eviction cases—An appeal from any contempt proceeding would provide clerk with adequate remedy to raise any due-process challenge to the judges’ authority to hold him in contempt for noncompliance with the administrative order, and the judges do not patently and unambiguously lack jurisdiction to hold him in contempt for failing to comply with it—Court of appeals’ judgment denying clerk’s request for a writ of prohibition and granting judges’ request for a writ of mandamus affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2117 6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2117
06/18/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals not accepted for review.   6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2118
06/18/2025 Case Announcements #2  Appeals not accepted for review.   6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2119
In re Hummel 2025-0802On certified entry of felony conviction.   6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2136
06/18/2025 Case Announcements #3  Disciplinary cases.   6/18/2025 6/18/2025 2025-Ohio-2137
State ex rel. Platt v Montgomery Cty. Bd. of Elections 2024-0325Mandamus—Public-records requests—Requested email county prosecutor’s office sent county board of elections that merely transmitted confidential legal memorandum is not itself protected by attorney-client privilege and therefore not exempt from disclosure under R.C. 149.43(A)(1)(v)—Requested email board’s deputy director sent from his board email account to his personal email account is a public record subject to disclosure because it documented a board activity by recording board’s receipt of memo from prosecutor’s office—A record that documents activity of a public office is a public record within meaning of R.C. 149.011(G) regardless of whether it documents authorized or unauthorized activity—Requested email deputy director sent from his personal email account forwarding memo to chairman of county Democratic Party is not a public record within meaning of R.C. 149.43(A)(1) because email account is not maintained by board—Writ granted in part and denied in part— Relator awarded $1,000 in damages, relator’s request for court costs granted, and relator’s request for attorney fees granted subject to submission of itemized application.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2079 6/17/2025 6/17/2025 2025-Ohio-2079
State ex rel. Brown v. Sackett 2024-0730Mandamus—Public-records requests—Inmate’s request that warden’s secretary be compelled to give him access to media report regarding an alleged assault against him and to any video footage of it denied because inmate presents no evidence refuting secretary’s assertion that no such report or footage exists—Inmate’s request that warden’s secretary be compelled to provide him with a copy of contract he requested granted contingent on inmate’s payment of costs of copying and postage—Inmate awarded $1,000 in statutory damages for secretary’s failure to comply with her duty to make contract available at cost and within a reasonable period of time.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2080 6/17/2025 6/17/2025 2025-Ohio-2080
State ex rel. Fenstermaker v. Phillips 2024-0858Mandamus—Public-records requests—County prosecutor has produced all records that inmate requested but failed to produce them within a reasonable period of time—Inmate’s request for writ denied as moot, and relator awarded $1,000 in statutory damages.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2081 6/17/2025 6/17/2025 2025-Ohio-2081
In re Application of Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. 2024-1505Public utilities—Jurisdiction properly invoked because notice of appeal was timely filed within 60 days of “the entry upon the journal of the commission of the order denying an application for rehearing” under R.C. 4903.11—Intervening appellee’s motion to dismiss denied.DeWine, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2082 6/17/2025 6/17/2025 2025-Ohio-2082
06/17/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   6/17/2025 6/17/2025 2025-Ohio-2120
06/16/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions—Miscellaneous dismissals.   6/16/2025 6/16/2025 2025-Ohio-2098
06/13/2025 Case Announcements  Miscellaneous dismissals.   6/13/2025 6/13/2025 2025-Ohio-2085
State v. Coker 2024-0087Criminal law—Sufficiency of the evidence—Rape—R.C. 2907.01(A)—Sufficient evidence was presented at trial on three counts of rape concerning “sexual conduct” as defined by R.C. 2907.01(A)—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to court of appeals.Shanahan, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2051 6/12/2025 6/12/2025 2025-Ohio-2051
Ohio Council 8, AFSCME, AFL-CIO v. Lakewood 2024-0031R.C. 4117.11—The test for jurisdiction of State Employment Relations Board (“SERB”) is whether one party filed charges with SERB alleging an unfair labor practice under R.C. 4117.11 or whether one party filed before a common pleas court a complaint alleging conduct that constitutes an unfair labor practice specifically enumerated in R.C. 4117.11—When a party does not allege an unfair labor practice or conduct that constitutes an unfair labor practice but instead raises a claim that is independent of the rights created by R.C. Ch. 4117, jurisdiction is not exclusive to SERB and may be exercised by a common pleas court—Because appellants did not allege that appellee engaged in an unfair labor practice or conduct that constitutes an unfair labor practice, SERB does not have exclusive jurisdiction over this case and jurisdiction was properly exercised by common pleas court—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to court of appeals.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2052 6/12/2025 6/12/2025 2025-Ohio-2052
06/12/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   6/12/2025 6/12/2025 2025-Ohio-2067
06/12/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   6/12/2025 6/12/2025 2025-Ohio-2068
State v. Clinkscale 2024-0005Criminal law—Judicial release—R.C. 2929.20—Jail-time credit—R.C. 2967.191—Jail-time credit does not reduce the required waiting period following expiration of mandatory prison terms for offenders with both mandatory and nonmandatory prison terms, because the five-year waiting period is fixed—Judgment reversed and cause remanded.Deters, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2043 6/11/2025 6/11/2025 2025-Ohio-2043
State ex rel. Byk v. Indus. Comm. 2024-0695Workers’ compensation—Scheduled-loss compensation—R.C. 4123.57(B) and 4123.60—Under plain language of R.C. 4123.60, dependent of injured worker not entitled to scheduled-loss compensation when she failed to establish that decedent would have been “lawfully entitled to have applied” a second time for loss of use of his bilateral upper and lower extremities—Judgment reversed and writ denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-2044 6/11/2025 6/11/2025 2025-Ohio-2044
06/11/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   6/11/2025 6/11/2025 2025-Ohio-2063
06/10/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   6/10/2025 6/10/2025 2025-Ohio-2048
06/10/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   6/10/2025 6/10/2025 2025-Ohio-2049
06/10/2025 Case Announcements #3  Motion and procedural rulings.   6/10/2025 6/10/2025 2025-Ohio-2062
06/09/2025 Case Announcements  Official versions released—Miscellaneous dismissals.   6/9/2025 6/9/2025 2025-Ohio-2037
06/05/2025 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   6/5/2025 6/5/2025 2025-Ohio-1992
Disciplinary Counsel v. Russ 2022-1512On application for reinstatement.   6/4/2025 6/4/2025 2025-Ohio-1984
06/04/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   6/4/2025 6/4/2025 2025-Ohio-1991
06/03/2025 Case Announcements  Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   6/3/2025 6/3/2025 2025-Ohio-1978
06/02/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   6/2/2025 6/2/2025 2025-Ohio-1964
05/30/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   5/30/2025 5/30/2025 2025-Ohio-1965
State ex rel. Dodson v. Smith 2024-1162Habeas corpus—Mistyping of appellant’s name on jury-verdict form did not strip trial court of jurisdiction to sentence appellant—Sentencing entries unambiguously sentenced appellant to consecutive sentences—Appellant had adequate remedy in ordinary course of law—Court of appeals’ judgment dismissing petition affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1878 5/29/2025 5/29/2025 2025-Ohio-1878
Columbus Bar Assn. v. Bryant 2024-1728Attorneys—Misconduct—Violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct by practicing law in a jurisdiction in violation of regulation of legal profession in that jurisdiction—Public reprimand.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1879 5/29/2025 5/29/2025 2025-Ohio-1879
Disciplinary Counsel v. Wilson 2025-0623On certification of default.   5/29/2025 5/29/2025 2025-Ohio-1919
05/29/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   5/29/2025 5/29/2025 2025-Ohio-1927
State ex rel. Robinson v. Wesson 2024-0876Mandamus—Public Records Act—R.C. 149.43—Public-records requester not entitled to writ, because he has already been provided with copies of the requested records—Response time of approximately three months to six public-records requests was reasonable because respondent was faced with responding to over 50 public-records requests from same requester seeking over 300 documents during that time—Writ and request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1874 5/28/2025 5/28/2025 2025-Ohio-1874
Snyder v. Old World Classics, L.L.C. 2023-1616 and 2024-0074Civil law—Party-presentation principle—Because none of the parties requested an oral hearing before trial court on motion to stay litigation and compel arbitration and on appeal did not assign error to trial court’s failure to hold an oral hearing on the motion, court of appeals violated party-presentation principle by reversing trial court’s order compelling arbitration on grounds that trial court did not hold an oral hearing on the motion—Court of appeals’ judgment vacated and cause remanded to court of appeals.Hawkins, J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1875 5/28/2025 5/28/2025 2025-Ohio-1875
05/28/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   5/28/2025 5/28/2025 2025-Ohio-1876
05/28/2025 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Mediation matters.   5/28/2025 5/28/2025 2025-Ohio-1906
State ex rel. Ware v. O'Malley 2024-0514Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Personnel files and payroll records of prosecutor and assistant prosecutors and list of cases assigned to an assistant prosecutor, if such a list exists, improperly withheld from inmate by prosecutor’s office under R.C. 149.43(B)(8), because those records did not concern a criminal investigation or prosecution—Limited writ granted, statutory damages denied as to all but request for list of cases, damages, if any, for which will be determined after compliance with limited writ, and court costs awarded.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1855 5/27/2025 5/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1855
State ex rel. Ware v. Smith 2024-0621Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Relator failed to establish entitlement to writ compelling respondent to produce requested public records—Writ and request for statutory damages denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1856 5/27/2025 5/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1856
05/27/2025 Case Announcements #2  Official versions released—Merit decisions with opinions.   5/27/2025 5/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1877
05/27/2025 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions—Disciplinary cases.   5/27/2025 5/27/2025 2025-Ohio-1846
Disciplinary Counsel v. Black 2024-1725Attorneys—Misconduct—Violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct by engaging in conduct that adversely reflects on a lawyer’s fitness to practice law—Two-year suspension with six months conditionally stayed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1790 5/22/2025 5/22/2025 2025-Ohio-1790
05/22/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.   5/22/2025 5/22/2025 2025-Ohio-1821
State v. Logan 2023-1318Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C. 2929.13(F)(8) requires a trial court to impose a prison sentence on an offender convicted of a felony offense that has a corresponding firearm specification—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Kennedy, C.J.Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1772 5/21/2025 5/21/2025 2025-Ohio-1772
05/21/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   5/21/2025 5/21/2025 2025-Ohio-1808
State ex rel. Ware v. Sheldon 2023-1636Mandamus—Relator failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that county sheriff failed to timely produce requested inmate-grievance policy, use-of-force policy, or use-of-force reports—Writ and relator’s requests for statutory damages and court costs denied.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-1768 5/20/2025 5/20/2025 2025-Ohio-1768
05/20/2025 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   5/20/2025 5/20/2025 2025-Ohio-1789
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