Constitutional Law Court Court Decisions Ohio 
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 2, 2025
Ohio Department of Youth Services , 605 U.S. _ (2025), the U.S. In this case, Petitioner Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman, has worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in various roles since 2004. The District Court granted summary judgment to the agency, and the Sixth Circuit affirmed. Green , 411 U.S.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
A key portion of the article summarizes a preliminary analysis of Justice Barrett's voting record over her first three-and-a-half terms on the Court. As longtime readers know, I believe Court watchers place too much weight on individual terms, none of which (in isolation) is ever representative of the Court's overall work.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
AUGUST 28, 2023
Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. In Mallory v.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Image from Supreme Court Petition. City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Now the Court has accepted a different parody case involving Jack Daniels where the company is suing the maker of dog chew toys. The case is Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. 2d 341 (9th Cir.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 30, 2021
Ohio (a 1969 case that we can discussed much in terms of “violent speech”), the Court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was deemed as promoting illegal conduct. Ironically, the was a class discussion on free speech and racism. Swers was quoting Clarence Brandenburg from Brandenburg v.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Maryland : “[W]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.”
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Supreme Court will hear a case with potentially sweeping implications for discrimination cases. Ohio Department of Youth Service involves an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being straight as less-qualified LGBT colleagues in Ohio’s youth corrections system were promoted.
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