State ex rel. Shaker Hts. Apartments Owner, L.L.C. v. Scott

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 1901

Syllabus

Mandamus, procedendo, stay of forcible entry and detainer cases, unclean hands, mootness, and capable of repetition yet evading review. The court dismissed as moot a mandamus and procedendo action to compel the trial court judge to lift the stays of 28 forcible entry and detainer actions in municipal court, when the respondent judge lifted stays and scheduled the case for further hearing, most of them within two weeks. The judge had stayed the forcible entry and detainer actions pursuant to the principle of unclean hands the relator had a criminal case pending in housing court. When that case was resolved, the respondent judge lifted the stays. This court ruled that the writ action was moot and that the \capable of repetition yet evading review\ exception did not apply.