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Estate of Cook v. Montville Twp. 2023-1285Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5690 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5690
Schlegel v. Summit Cty. 2023-1232Political-subdivision immunity—R.C. 2744.02(B)(3)—Exception to political-subdivision immunity in R.C. 2744.02(B)(3) for negligent failure to keep public roads in repair and free of obstructions is not restricted to losses by users of roadway—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5678 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5678
12/06/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5701
State ex rel. Copley Ohio Newspapers, Inc. v. Akron 2022-1444Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Newspaper’s requests for the personnel files, discipline records, and internal investigations of unidentified law-enforcement officers were requests for information and improper public-records requests—Law-enforcement officers involved in shooting are “uncharged suspects” for purposes of R.C. 149.43(A)(2)(a) and confidential-law-enforcement-investigatory-records exception—Writ granted in part and denied in part.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5677 12/6/2024 12/6/2024 2024-Ohio-5677
State ex rel. Rittman v. Spitler 2023-1388Prohibition—Judge in underlying case has jurisdiction and authority under R.C. 2723.01 to determine the case—Writ denied.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5668 12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5668
State ex rel. Martens v. Findlay Mun. Court 2024-0122Mandamus—Standing—Public-rights doctrine—State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Sheward overruled—Neither appellant nor future litigants may rely on Sheward’s public-right doctrine to bypass the traditional requirement that a litigant allege that he has been personally injured before he may seek relief in court—Appellant failed to establish taxpayer standing—Court of appeals’ dismissal of complaint for lack of standing affirmed.DeWine, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5667 12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5667
12/05/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   12/5/2024 12/5/2024 2024-Ohio-5679
12/04/2024 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/4/2024 12/4/2024 2024-Ohio-5675
12/04/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals.   12/4/2024 12/4/2024 2024-Ohio-5666
12/03/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5646
12/03/2024 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5648
12/03/2024 Case Announcements #2  Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/3/2024 12/3/2024 2024-Ohio-5647
12/02/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings.   12/2/2024 12/2/2024 2024-Ohio-5628
12/02/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   12/2/2024 12/2/2024 2024-Ohio-5629
Kennedy v. W. Res. Senior Care 2023-0372Medical malpractice—Out-of-state defendant—R.C. 2305.15(A)—Dormant Commerce Clause of United States Constitution—R.C. 2305.15(A) does not violate dormant Commerce Clause as applied to a physician who moved out of Ohio to practice medicine in another state—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.Stewart, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5565 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5565
11/27/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5584
Columbus Bar Assn. v. Ryan 2024-1099Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Conditionally stayed one-year suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5570 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5570
Disciplinary Counsel v. Brown-O'Neal 2024-1109Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—One-year suspension with six months conditionally stayed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5571 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5571
Disciplinary Counsel v. Port 2023-1512Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, including misappropriating client funds—Permanent disbarment.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5566 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5566
11/27/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review.   11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5572
State ex rel. Diewald v. Bur. of Sentence Computation 2024-0333Appellate jurisdiction—R.C. 2505.02(B)—Court of appeals’ entry construing appellant’s objections as a motion to set aside and denying it, denying his motion to disqualify magistrate, and denying his motion to set aside or stay magistrate’s scheduling order as moot did not determine the action or prevent a judgment—Appeal dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5567 11/27/2024 11/27/2024 2024-Ohio-5567
11/26/2024 Case Announcements #5  Miscellaneous orders.   11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5585
State ex rel. Ware v. Vigluicci 2023-1354Vexatious litigators—Attorney fees assessed as a sanction for frivolous conduct under S.Ct.Prac.R. 4.03(A) and Civ.R. 11.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5492 11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5492
State ex rel. AutoZone Stores, Inc. v. Indus. Comm. 2023-0493Workers’ compensation—Temporary-total-disability compensation—R.C. 4123.56—Employee who had already been terminated for violation of employment policies before his shoulder surgery was not “unable to work” as “direct result of an impairment arising from an injury or occupational disease” under plain language of R.C. 4123.56(F) and thus was not entitled to receive temporary-total-disability compensation—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and writ granted.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5519 11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5519
Disciplinary Counsel v. Ranke 2024-0491Attorneys—Misconduct—Multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Permanent disbarment and restitution ordered.Fischer, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5491 11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5491
11/26/2024 Case Announcements #2  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals—Mediation matters.   11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5568
11/26/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Appeals accepted for review—Appeals not accepted for review—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5529
State ex rel. Heilman v. Indus. Comm. 2023-1258Mandamus—Workers’ compensation—Commission abused its discretion by denying claimant’s request for scheduled-loss benefits based solely on nonexamining physician’s report that did not accept the objective factual findings of all examining physicians in compliance with Wallace v. Indus. Comm.—Commission may use noncomplying reports as guidance in reviewing remaining medical evidence—Court of appeals’ judgment granting limited writ ordering commission to vacate its order denying claimant’s loss-of-use compensation and to issue a new order granting or denying the request affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5518 11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5518
11/26/2024 Case Announcements #4  Appeals not accepted for review.   11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5574
11/26/2024 Case Announcements #3  Reconsideration of prior decisions.   11/26/2024 11/26/2024 2024-Ohio-5573
11/25/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   11/25/2024 11/25/2024 2024-Ohio-5522
11/25/2024 Case Announcements #2  Official versions released.   11/25/2024 11/25/2024 2024-Ohio-5524
11/22/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions.   11/22/2024 11/22/2024 2024-Ohio-5504
State ex rel. Obetz v. Stinziano 2023-0610Mandamus—Prohibition—Taxation—R.C. 321.31—R.C. 321.33—County not entitled to withhold future real-estate settlement proceeds owed to a city and reallocate those proceeds to other taxing jurisdictions as a means of offsetting past overpayment of real-estate settlement proceeds to the city under a tax-increment-financing arrangement—Limited writ of mandamus granted—Writ of prohibition denied.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5460 11/22/2024 11/22/2024 2024-Ohio-5460
Hicks v. Union Twp. Clermont Cty. Bd. of Trustees 2023-0580R.C. 143.43—Public-records requests—Township-constituent addresses—Mail-distribution lists for township newsletter document functions, procedures, and activities of the township—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5449 11/21/2024 11/21/2024 2024-Ohio-5449
11/21/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Miscellaneous dismissals.   11/21/2024 11/21/2024 2024-Ohio-5470
State ex rel. Martin v. Shabazz 2024-0123Quo warranto—Mandamus—Appellants failed to challenge court of appeals’ judgment dismissing their quo warranto claim on basis of laches and therefore waived that argument—Court of appeals’ determination that appellants could not establish entitlement to city-council offices or that appellees were unlawfully holding the positions affirmed—Court of appeals’ denial of request for writ of mandamus ordering continued payment of salaries and benefits as moot affirmed.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5450 11/21/2024 11/21/2024 2024-Ohio-5450
11/20/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases—Miscellaneous dismissals.   11/20/2024 11/20/2024 2024-Ohio-5461
Corder v. Ohio Edison Co. 2023-0216Civil law—Easements—Public utilities—Dispute between utility company and landowners over whether easements permit utility company to use herbicides to control vegetation on the property subject to the easements—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court for it to issue an entry awarding summary judgment to utility company.Donnelly, J.Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5432 11/20/2024 11/20/2024 2024-Ohio-5432
Disciplinary Counsel v. Byron 2024-1102Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Conditionally stayed one-year suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5433 11/20/2024 11/20/2024 2024-Ohio-5433
In re Application for Correction of Birth Record of Adelaide 2022-0934Court of appeals’ judgment left undisturbed in the absence of a majority to render a judgment. Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-5393 11/19/2024 11/19/2024 2024-Ohio-5393
11/19/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Disciplinary cases.   11/19/2024 11/19/2024 2024-Ohio-5446
Disciplinary Counsel v. Washington 1997-2646On application for reinstatement.   11/19/2024 11/19/2024 2024-Ohio-5443
Cleveland Metro. Bar Assn. v. Lemieux 2013-1246On application for reinstatement.   11/19/2024 11/19/2024 2024-Ohio-5444
Disciplinary Counsel v. Washington 1996-2787On application for reinstatement.   11/19/2024 11/19/2024 2024-Ohio-5442
11/15/2024 Administrative Actions  Administrative actions.   11/15/2024 11/15/2024 2024-Ohio-5403
11/15/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Miscellaneous dismissals.   11/15/2024 11/15/2024 2024-Ohio-5402
11/14/2024 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.   11/14/2024 11/14/2024 2024-Ohio-5388
11/14/2024 Case Announcements  Motion and procedural rulings—Disciplinary cases.   11/14/2024 11/14/2024 2024-Ohio-5385
11/13/2024 Case Announcements  Merit decisions without opinions—Motion and procedural rulings—Reconsideration of prior decisions.   11/13/2024 11/13/2024 2024-Ohio-5368
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