August 11, 2025
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a state law requiring judicial candidates to list their political party affiliations on general election ballots will go on after a federal judge ruled the justice sufficiently alleged that her First Amendment rights were violated.
November 19, 2024
Two of Ohio's top ethics officials and the chief justice of the state's intermediate appellate court urged a federal judge to let them out of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a law requiring judicial candidates to list their political party affiliations on general election ballots.
August 21, 2024
Ohio Court of Appeals Chief Judge Thomas J. Osowik is now ensnared in state Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a state law requiring candidates for Ohio's appellate courts to list their political party affiliation on the ballot, appearing as a defendant in a retooled version of her complaint.
May 16, 2024
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner asked a federal judge to let her amend her challenge to a new state law requiring certain judicial candidates to list their political party affiliation beside their name on the ballot, arguing that her claims also apply to an intermediate appellate judge.
March 13, 2024
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's effort to keep alive her suit challenging a new rule requiring certain judicial candidates in the state to have their political party affiliations listed on general election ballots did nothing to fix her complaint of numerous fatal flaws, the Ohio secretary of state has said.
February 21, 2024
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner pushed back against the Buckeye State secretary of state's bid to throw out her suit challenging a law requiring candidates for appellate judgeships to have their party affiliations on election ballots, arguing her constitutional rights had already been violated.
January 09, 2024
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urged a federal court this week to reject a state Supreme Court justice's challenge to a state law that would require her to be listed as a Democrat on general election ballots, arguing that since she hasn't yet declared her candidacy for any future office or judicial seat, she has no standing to sue.
January 01, 2024
The new year in Ohio will ring in more developments in claims over the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine and a fight by FirstEnergy investors to keep class certification, with both matters having already spawned a cavalcade of complaints.
November 15, 2023
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner voluntarily dismissed the Buckeye State's attorney general, Dave Yost, from her suit challenging a new law requiring her to be listed as a Democrat on general election ballots, but kept up her claims against other state officials.
November 08, 2023
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner has taken Buckeye State officials to federal court to challenge a law requiring candidates for her own court and lower appellate courts to have their political affiliation listed on general election ballots, arguing that it unfairly restricted her 2022 campaign for chief justice.