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Last updated: September 21, 2009 9:33 a.m.

Verbatim: Ohio Supreme Court to hear 4 cases in Paulding County

Statement issued Monday morning:

COLUMBUS – The Supreme Court of Ohio confirmed today the four cases it will hear in Paulding County on Wednesday, Oct. 21, as part of its semiannual Off-Site Court program.

Oral arguments will be held before the seven Justices of the Supreme Court at 9 a.m. at the Paulding County Courthouse, 115 N. Williams St., Paulding. Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer will preside and be joined by Justices Paul E. Pfeifer, Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, Maureen O’Connor, Terrence O’Donnell, Judith Ann Lanzinger and Robert R. Cupp.

The cases include: In the Matter of: Meredith Poling, Alleged Delinquent Child, Case No. 2008-1562 (Hardin County); Stammco, LLC, et al v. United Telephone Co. of Ohio et al., Case No. 2008-1822 (Fulton County); State v. Jordan, Case Nos. 2008-2119 and 2008-2172 (Marion County); and Elevators Mutual Insurance Company v. J. Patrick O’Flaherty’s, Inc., et al., Case No. 2009-0321 (Sandusky County). Click here to access court documents related to all four cases. Summaries of these cases will be released soon.

Chief Justice Moyer said the four cases were selected specifically because of their subject matter and/or proximity to Paulding County. "We attempt to schedule cases on Off-Site Court days that have local or regional ties or that deal in legal concepts with which students can relate or have learned about through their government classes," he said.

Initiated by Chief Justice Moyer in 1987, the Off-Site Court program has gained national recognition as a model program for education about the judiciary. The program enhances students’ understanding of the legal system by providing an opportunity for hundreds of students to attend and observe the proceedings of the Supreme Court in person and to interact with Justices, attorneys and Court staff.

Students from Antwerp Local, Paulding and Wayne Trace high schools will participate. The students and their teachers will receive curriculum materials to study before the session, including summaries of the specific cases to be argued. Local attorneys will team with educators at each participating school to explain Ohio’s judicial system and review case materials.

Students from each participating school will be assigned to attend one of the oral arguments. After their assigned case has been argued, each group will meet with the case attorneys for a debriefing and discussion of the legal issues in the argument they just heard.

Chief Justice Moyer said the Paulding County session will mark the 58th time the Supreme Court has heard oral arguments outside Columbus during the past 22 years.

Click here to access a video with background information about the program.

Anne Gregory is the Web writer-editor for The Journal Gazette and has been with the newspaper since 2000, serving as Sunday editor, assistant news editor and Metro section editor. An award-winning editor and columnist, she has worked at newspapers in Ohio and Indiana. Gardeners know her work as author of "The Dirt" on the Sunday Garden page.