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On July 7, 2025, the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) will be sponsoring its seventh annual program on the Importance of the Ohio Constitution. This year’s program, which begins at 12:30 pm and is a live interactive webinar, contains a review of state and federal state constitutional developments, a discussion of state constitutional interpretation, a review […]

The State Court Project of the Brennan Center for Justice has been publishing essays on the constitution of each of the states.  The Ohio essay, The Ohio Constitution: Its History and Its Future, written by Steven Steinglass, can be found at the following address: https://statecourtreport.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ohio-constitution-its-history-and-its-future 

Infrastructure Bonds On May 6, 2025, Ohio voters amended the Ohio Constitution to authorize the issuance of $2.5 billion in general obligation infrastructure bonds to provide funds to help counties, cities, villages and townships pay for roads and bridges, sewage-treatment plants, water lines, solid-waste-disposal facilities, and storm and sanitary sewers for the next decade. No

The Ohio Constitution Law and History website, see link, has been enhanced with a new Table that should be of interest to those who follow the Ohio Constitution. The new Table of Initiated Constitutional Amendments Rejected by Ohio Voters, see link, collects the 53 rejected amendments in one place. The website also contains statistical information on

There have been some enhancements and updates to the Ohio Constitution Law and History website, see link, that should be of interest to those who follow the Ohio Constitution. Cases to Watch. This feature, Cases to Watch, see link, reports on cases in the lower courts of Ohio involving state constitutional issues. It has been

During 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court decided 23 cases that implicated directly or indirectly the Ohio Constitution. Some of these cases had detailed opinions addressing the Ohio Constitution while others only mentioned the Ohio Constitution in passing. And some cases declined to reach the state constitutional issue. These cases (and others back to 2000) are