Judge Eugene Lucci, writing for a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday, held that the Adams County Board of Elections must conduct a hearing on an elector's challenge to county prosecutor Aaron Haslam's voter registration, ruling that the board 'abused...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday suspended attorney Jack Herchel VanBibber for two years after finding he made false statements to a tribunal, sexually propositioned his client's significant other via Snapchat, and repeatedly failed to cooperate with disc...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously reversed a court of appeals decision and reinstated involuntary manslaughter and drug corruption convictions against Carol A. Seymour, holding that prosecutors need only prove death 'would not have occurred abse...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's dismissal of an incarcerated man's mandamus petition seeking to vacate his 2009 traffic conviction, holding that 'Wright failed to state a cognizable claim in mandamus' due to a lack of clear legal...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously affirmed dismissal of a prisoner's habeas corpus petition that challenged his conviction by claiming the judge who accepted his plea was improperly assigned to the case, ruling that procedural irregularities i...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of an inmate's habeas corpus petition, ruling unanimously that Lewis Leroy McIntyre Jr. 'invited' a procedural error by including an improperly described case in his required affidavit of prior litiga...
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a court of appeals ruling that had allowed a drowning lawsuit against Cleveland to proceed, holding unanimously that a lifeguard's decision to use a folding chair rather than an elevated lifeguard chair 'plainly do...
Writing for a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court panel on Tuesday, the per curiam opinion permanently disbarred Javier Horacio Armengau, rejecting his claims of innocence in stating that 'while Armengau has served the sentence imposed for his crimes and that by a...