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SORRELL v. THEVENIR

Nos. 92-2382 and 93-1041.

69 Ohio St.3d 415 (1994)

SORRELL ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. THEVENIR, APPELLEE. CLARK ET AL. v. QUALITY STORES, INC.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A., Thomas J. Murray, Nancy L. Ogden and Alicia Wolph; Schulman, Mestel & Burick Co., L.P.A., and Allen J. Schulman, Jr.; Porter, Little, Sheets & Lentes and Jennifer L. Sheets, for appellants.

Theisen, Brock, Frye, Erb & Leeper Co., L.P.A., John E. Erb, James S. Huggins and Paul A MacKenzie, for appellee.

A. William Zavarello and Mark W. Ruf, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease and William D. Kloss, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Insurance Institute.

Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley & Howley, Ronald A Rispo and William H. Baughman, Jr., urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

Wolske & Blue, Gerald S. Leeseberg and Sarah H. Meirson, for petitioners.

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick and Robert G. Clayton, Jr., for respondent.

A. WILLIAM SWEENEY, J.

In the cases before us, R.C. 2317.45 is assailed as being unconstitutional on the grounds that it violates the following provisions of the Ohio Constitution: Section 16, Article I (due process, right to a remedy and open courts), Section 2, Article I (equal protection), and Section 5, Article I (right to a jury trial). For the reasons that follow, we hold R.C. 2317.45 to be unconstitutional under all of the foregoing constitutional provisions...

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