Practice Questions – Ohio Law Research Certificate Seminar ...



Practice Questions – Ohio Law Research Certificate Seminar – Oct .14, 2010

1. Find a complaint form for employment discrimination in Ohio using Lexis - All Ohio LexisNexis Forms. What is the Lexis Form number for one such complaint

Lexis - All Ohio LexisNexis Forms – Select from the outline: Labor and Employment>Discrimination Go to advanced and pick jurisdiction – Ohio and do a search for: JURISDICTION(ohio) and complaint

2. Find the Ohio Statute that gives the statute of limitations for a wrongful death action.

a. What is generally the statute of limitations (not considering exceptions)? What is the citation for the part of the statute that talks about statute of limitations?

Lexis – search –

Natural language - statute of limitations wrongful death 

Terms and Connectors - section("statute of limitations" and "wrongful death")

2125.02. Persons entitled to recover; determination of damages; limitation of actions

(D) (1) Except as provided in division (D)(2) of this section, a civil action for wrongful death shall be commenced within two years after the decedent's death.

b. What is the citation for the Session Law that most recently amended this ORC section?

150 v S 80, 2003

c. For the Session law you found in part b, go on Ohio Capital Connection and find the hearing summaries. Someone from the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers testified concerning the wrongful death provisions. Did this person believe the changes to the wrongful death statute to be constitutional or unconstitutional?

3.Find an Ohio Attorney General Opinion stating whether or not a school district can charge tuition for all day kindergarten. May the district charge for all day kindergarten? What is the Ohio Attorney General Opinion Number?

For the reasons that follow, we conclude that a board of education of a school district that

provides an all-day kindergarten program is without authority to charge tuition to resident

parents whose children attend all-day kindergarten classes in the school district.

2007-027

Requested by: Superintendent of Public Instruction

School district may not charge tuition of resident parent of child who attends all-day kindergarten within the district

4. Can you identify a recent Ohio Supreme Court case that would have allowed the Ohio Attorney General to reclassify sexual offenders? What did the court cite as their reason for not allowing the Attorney General to reclassify the sexual offenders?

State v. Bodyke 126 Ohio St.3d 266, 933 N.E.2d 753 Ohio,2010.

(June 3, 2010) In a narrowly tailored decision announced today, the Supreme Court of Ohio voided as unconstitutional two sections of the Ohio Adam Walsh Act (AWA) that authorize the state attorney general to reclassify sex offenders who had already been classified by judges under a previous version of the law, “Megan’s Law.”  The Court held that the challenged provisions violate the separation-of-powers doctrine of the Ohio Constitution. 

5. Optional Question

Find an Ohio practice book on Lexis and on Westlaw dealing specifically with probate law. What are the titles of those books?

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