Ohio Code 2503.37 – Docket order of cases
Cases commenced in or taken to the supreme court shall be entered on the docket in the order in which they are commenced, received, or filed. They shall be disposed of in the same order, except that the court may dispose of the following classes of cases in advance of their order on the docket:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 2503.37
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(A) Proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, procedendo, prohibition, or habeas corpus;
(B) Cases in which the person seeking relief has been convicted of felony;
(C) Cases involving the validity of a tax levy or assessment;
(D) Cases involving the construction or constitutionality of a statute, or a question of practice, in which the questions arising are of general public interest;
(E) Cases of general interest to the public, if two or more of the courts of appeals have held the law directly opposite upon like facts;
(F) Cases in which the relief sought is damages for personal injury, or for death caused by negligence, and in which the person injured makes affidavit that the person’s livelihood is dependent upon daily labor, or, in case of death, in which the surviving spouse or any of the next of kin of the deceased makes an affidavit that the surviving spouse or next of kin was dependent for livelihood upon the person’s or the decedent‘s daily labor;
(G) Cases in which a trust fund for the care, support, or education of a minor, or care or support of a person with an intellectual disability, is in question;
(H) Cases involving controversies or questions arising in the administration of the estate of a deceased person under the laws of this state;
(I) Cases involving the construction of a statute for the annexation of territory to a municipal corporation.