Volume 178 — Ohio State Reports, Third Series

Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Newspaper's requests for the personnel files, discipline records, and internal investigations of unidentified law-enforcement officers were requests for information and improper public-records requests—Law-enforcement officers involved in shooting are "uncharged suspects" for purposes of R.C. 149.43(A)(2)(a) and confidential-law-enforcement-investigatory-records exception—Writ granted in part and denied in part.

Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Grand-juror names and grand-jury-foreperson signature are public records—Writ granted in part and denied in part.

Appellate jurisdiction—R.C. 2505.02(B)—Court of appeals' entry construing appellant's objections as a motion to set aside and denying it, denying his motion to disqualify magistrate, and denying his motion to set aside or stay magistrate's scheduling order as moot did not determine the action or prevent a judgment—Appeal dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Habeas corpus—Petitioner has served maximum prison sentence of 23 years and is entitled to immediate release—Writ granted.

Political-subdivision immunity—R.C. 2744.02(B)(3)—Exception to political-subdivision immunity in R.C. 2744.02(B)(3) for negligent failure to keep public roads in repair and free of obstructions is not restricted to losses by users of roadway—Court of appeals' judgment reversed and cause remanded to trial court.

Criminal law—Self-defense—R.C. 2901.09—Retroactive application—Trial court correctly applied former version of self-defense statute to crimes committed before amended statute's effective date—Judgments affirmed.

Mandamus—Public-records requests—R.C. 149.43—Relator failed to prove that any business days elapsed between date when he filed his mandamus action and date when respondents provided him with copies of the requested records—Request for writ denied as moot and statutory damages denied.

Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Conditionally stayed one-year suspension.

Quo warranto—The burden to prove that laches applies generally falls on the party asserting the defense—Court of appeals erred in placing on relators-appellants the burden to prove that they had acted with the utmost diligence in asserting their claims—Quo warranto cases do not involve the election deadlines that justify shifting the burden of proving unreasonable delay from the respondent to the relator—Relators-appellants' complaint does not conclusively show that laches applies—Court of appeals' dismissal of complaint on basis of laches reversed and cause remanded.

Mandamus—Elections—R.C. 718.04(C)(2)—Board of elections disregarded applicable law set forth in R.C. 718.04(C)(2) when it rejected city council's request to have proposed ordinance for continuation of an excess municipal income tax placed on the May 6, 2025 primary-and-special-election ballot—Writ granted.

Prohibition—Writ cannot be issued against appellee-prosecutor because she does not exercise judicial or quasi-judicial power—Inmate not entitled to writ against appellee-judge because judge had subject-matter jurisdiction to rule on inmate's motion for final, appealable order and inmate had adequate remedy in ordinary course of law by appeal—Court of appeals' dismissal of petition affirmed.

Mandamus—Public-records requests—Inmate failed to obtain leave of sentencing court before requesting arrest report as required by R.C. 149.43(B)(8) and failed to submit evidence showing that five other records he requested exist—Writ and relator's request for statutory damages denied.

On certification of default of child support order.

On certification of default.

Attorneys at law—Resignation with disciplinary action pending—Gov.Bar R. VI(11)(C).