Case ID: ohio-st-3d_81/html/1255-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Pfeifer, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers et al. v. Sheward, Judge, et al.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Sheward (1998), 81 Ohio St.3d 1255.]
    (No. 97-2419
    Submitted and decided March 19, 1998.)
    
      Don C. Iler and Robert S. Peck, for relators Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and Richard Mason.
    
      Stewart R. Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy, for relators Ohio AFL-CIO and William Burga.
    
      
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Arthur J. Marziale, Jr., Judith L. French and Stephen P. Carney, Assistant Attorneys General, for intervenorrespondent Ohio Attorney General.
   Relators’ joint motion to quash subpoenas is granted.

Douglas, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ., concur.

Pfeifer, J., concurs separately.

Moyer, C.J., Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Intervenor-respondent’s motion to compel is denied.

Douglas, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ., concur.

Pfeifer, J., concurs separately.

Moyer, C.J., Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Pfeifer, J.,

concurring. I am voting to quash the subpoenas in this case not because the issue of relators’ standing has been settled, but because the requests for depositions and for production of documents are overly broad and burdensome. More focused and tailored discovery requests, perhaps beginning with stipulations, would be appropriate.