Case ID: ohio-st-3d_110/html/1240-01.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

Wachovia National Bank of Delaware, N.A., f.k.a First Union National Bank of Delaware, Appellee, v. Maenle et al., Appellants.
    [Cite as Wachovia Natl. Bank of Delaware, N.A. v. Maenle, 110 Ohio St.3d 1240, 2006-Ohio-3820.]
    (No. 2005-1635
    Submitted June 6, 2006
    Decided August 9, 2006.)
    McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., James S. Wertheim, and Kimberly Y. Smith Rivera, for appellee Wachovia National Bank of Delaware, N.A.
    James J. Martin Co., L.P.A., and James J. Martin; and Joseph A. Zannieri, for appellants.
    Russell V. Leffler, Huron County Prosecuting Attorney, and Dina Shenker, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee Huron County Treasurer.
    K. Ronald Bailey & Associates Co., L.P.A., and K. Ronald Bailey, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
   {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently accepted.

{¶ 2} The court orders that the opinion of the court of appeals may not be cited as authority except by the parties inter se.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell and Lanzinger, JJ., concur.

Pfeifer, J., dissents.

Pfeifer, J.,

dissenting.

{¶ 3} I would reverse the decision of the court of appeals and reinstate the decision of the trial court. I would base my decision on R.C. 2317.02, which governs privileged communications, not on Hearn v. Rhay (E.D.Wash.1975), 68 F.R.D. 574. I dissent.

Lynch & White and Richard S. Lynch, urging reversal for amicus curiae Richard S. Lynch.

Buckingham, Lucal, McGookey & Zeiher Co., L.P.A., and John R. Ball, urging reversal for amicus curiae John R. Ball.