I have a hard time believing this one. Judge O’Toole was elected to the 11th District Court of Appeals, then lost an election. So she was no longer a judge. She ran for the seat again. Here are quotes from the opinion of Justice Lanzinger.

I give this a vote for progress. One can now file an appeal with the Court in PDF format and use a credit card for payment.

Here are some judicial opinions in which a judge admitted he had been wrong in another case.

Well, in theory and in exceptional and rare circumstances this may be true. The problem would be when the prosecutor has to eat the ham sandwich.

I am writing this before the grand jury decision has been announced. So the grand jury returns a no bill; that is, it refuses to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown.

The bar exam in Ohio is stuck in antiquity. The questions are screwy and the grading is subjective. Imagine that you are a bar examiner and you have to grade hundreds of long handwritten answers to an essay question.

Ohio has adopted a form of comparative negligence and abolished contributory negligence as a complete defense.

“Let nothing be said of the dead, but good” is my translation. Having said that, I will violate that precept.

This case is a textbook example how privileged interests get favored treatment by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Yes, they are like unsmiling, somber, cruel medieval clerics debating a concept that defies common sense. Since they are on the Supreme Court they can make their own Supreme Court Sense and debate it.