Fourth District Court of Appeals Judge Kristy S. Wilkin wanted to be on the bench to grow as a legal scholar while handling the responsibility of upholding the law. Her pursuits reached a new level as a first-time assigned judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Along party lines, the Ohio Supreme Court on Friday gave the green light to an attempt by Republican leaders of the state’s gerrymandered legislature to make it much harder for voters to amend the state Constitution. The court ruled in a 4-3 decision that it’s OK for the issue to be placed on the Aug. 8 ballot even though the legislature just outlawed such elections in January.

One day after an Ohio Supreme Court ruling, the Ohio Ballot Board revised the language for State Issue 1, the Aug. 8 proposal asking voters to require future constitutional amendments clear a 60-percent supermajority for passage.

Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court sided with the Ohio Ballot Board decision to allow an abortion rights amendment to go forward as a single question. Opponents of the effort wanted the court to split it in two, but instead the justices deferred to the Ballot Board.

New Ohio judges learned about the responsibilities and challenges that come with serving their community at the Supreme Court of Ohio’s New Judge Orientation.

The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently that Sheffield Lake officials made reasonable, but unsuccessful, efforts to uncover racist or disparaging documents from the computer of a former police chief who was caught on video placing a “Ku Klux Klan” sign on the coat of a Black police officer.

A Lancaster attorney was suspended from the practice of law for two years, with one year stayed by the Supreme Court of Ohio, recently.

State lawmakers approved a measure to ask voters if Ohio should raise the threshold for approving constitutional amendments to 60 percent. But in an unusual move, they set the August date for that election through the resolution itself. They made no changes to state law which strictly limit such elections.

Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy recently announced a Supreme Court of Ohio Reentry Task Force.

The foundation formed to distribute settlement funds that local and state governments are receiving from opioid makers and distributors is the functional equivalent of a public office and must makes its records publicly available, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled Wednesday.

In 2020, Thomas Weidman, a township trustee in Warren County, found out he was the target of a state auditor’s investigation accusing him of soliciting bribes. The “smoking gun” was an email allegedly written by him 10 years earlier that resurfaced. The email was a fake, and Weidman sued the author for libel.

The Supreme Court of Ohio last week vacated the burglary conviction of a man who walked past a homeowner into his open garage and stole a $500 leaf blower, finding the offender did not use “force, stealth or deception” to commit the crime.

An Urbana attorney, who led police on a nearly 100 mph car chase while intoxicated, was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Ohio this month.

Amidst an Ohio Supreme Court case on whether to allow the state to appeal a pause in Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, the state’s attorneys also explained their stance on the ban itself and the challengers to it.

The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct Friday announced three April disciplinary hearings involving attorneys.