The state's top court dismissed Attorney General Dave Yost's bid to force Columbus City Schools to transport private and charter school pupils during mediation disputes.
The state’s highest court ruled that the Ohio Constitution’s guarantee of counsel applies only to trials, not police interrogations, and rejected a defendant’s claim that he invoked his federal right to an attorney during questioning.
A six-justice majority ruled that Ohio's artificial-insemination parentage statute cannot be stretched to cover a woman who never wed her former partner, even if same-sex marriage was unavailable in Ohio when their children were born.
The Ohio Supreme Court held that R.C. 2953.21 provides the exclusive mechanism for collateral challenges to criminal convictions, meaning a capital defendant cannot use Civ.R. 60(B) to reopen a prior judgment denying his petition for postconviction relief.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Nationwide Energy Partners, L.L.C. is a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, reversing a lower commission order that had exempted the company from regulation.