STATE EX REL. TOLEDO BLADE CO. v. HENRY CTY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

No. 2010-0161.

125 Ohio St.3d 149 (2010)

2010-Ohio-1533

THE STATE EX REL. TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY v. HENRY COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 13, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fritz Byers and Scott Ciolek, for relator.

Rayle, Matthews & Coon and Max E. Rayle; and Ronald J. Kozar, for respondents.

Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, and Mara E. Zimmerman, urging granting of the writ for amicus curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Michael T. Honohan, Carrie L. Davis, and Angela Barstow, urging granting of the writ for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc.

Stephen P. Hardwick, urging denial of the writ for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Arthur, O'Neil, Mertz, Michel & Brown Co., L.P.A., and Clayton J. Crates, urging denial of the writ for amicus curiae David E. Knepley.


Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} This is an original action for a writ of prohibition to prevent a common pleas court and its judge from enforcing a gag order prohibiting the media from reporting about the trial proceedings in one criminal case until a jury is impaneled in a separate criminal case. Because prohibition is an appropriate action to challenge the propriety of the gag order and that order was not

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