I just learned that the Ohio Judicial Conference (hereinafter "OJC") maintains a Library of Reasoned Orders. The OJC's second quarter 2011 issue of for the Record describes this Library as follows:
"This library collects reasoned orders issued by Ohio judges and makes them available to other Ohio judges as a helpful resource. A reasoned order is one made by a judge that may prove helpful to other judges. Reasoned orders submitted to the web-based library may address new or unique issues as well as routine issues that may come before a judge. A reasoned order must provide sufficient analysis of the issue in order to be beneficial to another judge confronted with the same or a similar issue."
The orders entered into this library are indexed by category to help judges find them. However, the OJC provides several disclaimers on use of the orders because they have not been reviewed, edited or updated for changes in the law. Nevertheless, this tool provides a great resource for judges. It appears that the resource itself is only available to OJC members by logging in at the OJC homepage.
