Case Title: Goodman v. Hanseman

Citation: 2012-Ohio-1587

Docket Number: 2010-2159

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2012-04-12T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
Goodman v. Hanseman, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-1587.] 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2012-OHIO-1587 
GOODMAN, DIR., OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, APPELLANT, v. 
HANSEMAN, ADMR., ET AL., APPELLEES. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as Goodman v. Hanseman, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-1587.] 
Appellate procedure—Standing. 
(No. 2010-2159—Submitted November 1, 2011—Decided April 12, 2012.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County,  
Nos. 23834, 23835, and 23842, 2010-Ohio-5273. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} To have appellate standing, a party must be “ ‘aggrieved by the 
final order appealed from.’ ” State ex rel. Merrill v. Ohio Dept. of Natural 
Resources, 130 Ohio St.3d 30, 2011-Ohio-4612, 955 N.E.2d 935, ¶ 28, quoting 
Ohio Contract Carriers Assn., Inc. v. Pub. Util. Comm., 140 Ohio St. 160, 42 
N.E.2d 758 (1942), syllabus.  Accord State ex rel. Gabriel v. Youngstown, 75 
Ohio St.3d 618, 665 N.E.2d 209 (1996).  Appellees, the cross-appellants below, 
did not have standing to appeal the decision of the trial court.  Accordingly, the 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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portion of the court of appeals decision concerning the powers of the Division of 
Securities is vacated. 
So ordered. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, 
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
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Michael DeWine, Attorney General, Alexandra T. Schimmer, Solicitor 
General, Stephen P. Carney, Deputy Solicitor, and Cheryl R. Hawkinson and 
Dennis P. Smith Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant. 
Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, L.L.P., Ralph W. Kohnen, and Eric Combs, 
for appellee Alice Jane Dillabaugh. 
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