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Supreme Court of Ohio
Ohio’s court of last resort — seven justices, elected — and the only institution that has ever declared the state’s school funding system unconstitutional. It did so in DeRolph I (1997) and reaffirmed the declaration in DeRolph IV (2002), across a span in which the court’s composition changed and its position on remedy changed with it. verified
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The court’s role in this domain is unusual and worth stating plainly: it held the system invalid four times and then, in 2003, prohibited the trial court from conducting further proceedings to enforce the holding — ending the case without the system having been found compliant. verified The result is a constitutional judgment that remains on the books with no enforcement mechanism behind it, which is the central fact any account of Ohio school funding since 2003 has to reckon with. inference
Properties
| Name | Supreme Court of Ohio |
|---|---|
| Kind of institution | court |
| Established | 1802-11-29 |
| Authority | Final interpretation of the Ohio Constitution, including Article VI, Section 2. Original jurisdiction in prohibition, which is the vehicle by which it terminated the DeRolph remand in 2003. |
| Publishes | Slip and bound opinions with WebCite citations; the online opinion archive feeding the ohio-courts connector. |
Links
| Instance of | Institutional Actor |
|---|---|
| Decides | Cincinnati City School District Board of Education v. Walter (1979) |
| Decides | DeRolph v. State (DeRolph I, 1997) |
| Decides | DeRolph v. State (DeRolph IV, 2002) |