finding relator not entitled to relief in mandamus where the requested relief was not sought in the complaint and the relator “did not timely amend its complaint to include a request for it”
How later courts described this case
- finding relator not entitled to relief in mandamus where the requested relief was not sought in the complaint and the relator “did not timely amend its complaint to include a request for it”
- “A ‘case is moot when the issues presented are no longer “live” or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.’”
- a court's function is to render judgment in actual controversies where judgment can be carried into effect
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Pfeifer, Acting C.J., and Lanzinger, J.,
dissent for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of Pfeifer, J., in State ex rel. Associated Builders & Contrs. of Cent. Ohio v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Commrs., 125 Ohio St.3d 112 , 2010-Ohio-1199 , 926 N.E.2d 600 .
The late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer did not participate in the decision in this case.