Ohio Legal Research Blog

10.26.2004

Ohio legislative history on Westlaw

Westlaw has created a short document summarizing Ohio legislative history documents available in its database. The two-page .pdf summary is posted here. This is a continuing expansion of its StatutesPlus features. Ohio's files on Westlaw include material from current legislative sessions; each file varies in coverage.

The new files are:
OH-LH (Ohio Legislative History file of all 10 databases)
OH-LH-REP (Ohio Legislative Service Commission bill analyses)
OH-LH-JRNLS (Legislative Journals from the House of Representatives)
OH-LH-MSG (Ohio Legislative Messages from the governor)

The following files have previously been on Westlaw, but are now also gathered in the Legislative History database:
OH-BILLTXT
OH-BILLTRK
OH-BILLS
OH-BILLS-OLD
OH-BILLTXT-OLD
OH-BILLTRK-OLD

Sixth Circuit title added to Lexis

Lexis has added the Sixth Circuit Criminal Handbook to its Matthew Bender files; its in the MATBEN Library; file name SCCRHA.

10.25.2004

Symposium issue on Ohio's Constitution

CLEVELAND STATE LAW REVIEW
VOLUME 51, NUMBERS 3 & 4 2004


Contents of the Symposium Issue:

THE OHIO CONSTITUTION--THEN AND NOW:

AN EXAMINATION OF THE LAW AND HISTORY OF THE OHIO CONSTITUTION ON THE OCCASION OF ITS BICENTENNIAL

FOREWORD: THE OHIO CONSTITUTION ON THE OCCASION OF ITS BICENTENNIAL

Kevin Francis O'Neill p. 333

STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, NEW JUDICIAL FEDERALISM, AND THE REHNQUIST COURT

Shirley S. Abrahamson p. 339

OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Barbara A. Terzian p. 357

AN OHIO DILEMMA: RACE, EQUAL PROTECTION, AND THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF A STATE BILL OF RIGHTS

Jonathan L. Entin p. 395

THE NEW JUDICIAL FEDERALISM IN OHIO: THE FIRST DECADE

Robert F. Williams p. 415

OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION

Richard B. Saphire p. 437

OHIO JOINS THE NEW JUDICIAL FEDERALISM MOVEMENT: A LITTLE TO-ING AND A LITTLE FRO-ING

Marianna Brown Bettman p. 491

SEPARATION OF POWERS IN OHIO: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Curtis Rodebush p. 505

RECALIBRATING JUSTICIABILITY IN OHIO COURTS

Michael E. Solimine p. 531

OF DISUNITY AND LOGROLLING: OHIO'S ONE-SUBJECT RULE AND THE VERY EVILS IT WAS DESIGNED TO PREVENT

Stephanie Hoffer and Travis McDade p. 557

THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMON SCHOOL

Molly O'Brien and Amanda Woodrum p. 581

WRITING CHECKS OR RIGHTING WRONGS:ELECTION FUNDING AND THE TORT DECISIONS OF THE OHIO SUPREME COURT

James T. O'Reilly p. 643

ORDINANCE OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY (1787) p. 659

CONSTITUTION OF OHIO, 1802 p. 665