STATE EX REL. MOTHER AGAISNT DRUNK DRIVERS v. GOSSER

No. 84-1725.

20 Ohio St. 3d 30 (1985)

THE STATE, EX REL. MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. GOSSER, CLERK, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided November 20, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac, Brant, Ledman & Becker, Douglas S. Roberts and David H. Meade, for appellants.

Jeffrey M. Welbaum, prosecuting attorney, and Carla M. Suerdieck, for appellee.

Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, and Simon B. Karas, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Attorney General of Ohio.


HOLMES, J.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a writ of mandamus shall issue to compel the Clerk of the Miami County Municipal Court to make available to appellants the recorded information identified as documents A-E, above. For the reasons set forth below, we hold that appellants are entitled to the writ of mandamus.

The extraordinary legal remedy of mandamus may be granted to compel execution of an official duty from a ministerial officer...

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