Ohio Constitution News

December in even-numbered years is a busy time for the Ohio Supreme Court as it rushes to decide argued cases before the biennial change in the membership of the court, and December 2022 was no e...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2023/01/09/december-is-the-busiest-month-for-the-ohio-constitution/

The Court Decisions involving Ohio constitutional issues has been updated to include the balance of cases through the end of October 2022. In addition, the Pipeline has been updated, effectiv...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/11/04/website-updated-to-include-balance-of-october-2022-cases-and-to-update-the-pipeline-to-november-1-2022/

The website has been updated to include the 2022 decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court involving the Ohio Constitution, including the 2022 redistricting cases.  The cases include links to the dec...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/10/14/2022-ohio-supreme-court-decisions-on-the-ohio-constitution-added-to-the-website-along-with-a-pipeline-chart-on-pending-cases-involving-issues-under-the-ohio-constitution/

Ohio courts are not bound by the case or controversy requirements of Article III of the U.S. Constitution in determining whether cases in the Ohio courts are justiciable, but they are free to loo...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/03/27/ohio-supreme-court-holds-that-challenge-to-the-constitutionality-of-the-reagan-tokes-act-is-ripe-for-judicial-review-in-a-direct-appeal-of-the-initial-sentence/

Unlike the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides, in part, that “excessive bail shall not be required,” Article I, sec, 9, of the Ohio Constitution provides not only that ...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/03/22/ohio-supreme-court-addresses-the-standards-for-appellate-review-of-excessive-bail-claims-in-dubose-v-mcguffey/

The Ohio State Bar Association is sponsoring its fourth annual program on The Importance of the Ohio Constitution: Who Decides? Constitutional Rights in Criminal and Civil Cases. The seminar is s...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/03/20/upcoming-osba-program-on-the-importance-of-the-ohio-constitution/

According to the most recently issued edition of Book of the States, the number of words in the Ohio Constitution has increased to 59,858, and Ohio now has the ninth longest state constitution in...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/02/03/with-almost-60000-words-ohio-now-has-the-ninth-longest-state-constitution/

Ohio Constitution Network has been updated, and the Court Decisions from 2021 now includes 15 decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court in which the court addressed directly or indirectly issues concer...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2022/01/14/ocn-posts-2021-ohio-constitutional-cases/

After a period of hiatus, Ohio Constitution News (OCN) is back, and new items will be posted periodically.   Ohio Constitution News is a blog that tracks developments relating to the Ohio Consti...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2021/12/23/ocn-is-back/

The year 2021 represents the third consecutive year in which Ohio voters were not presented an opportunity to vote on any proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution. In the first two decades of...

https://ohioconstitution.classcaster.net/2021/12/22/no-proposed-constitutional-amendments-on-the-2021-ballot/