State ex rel. Wood v. McClelland (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Appellant, attorney John Wood, filed a petition for a writ of prohibition, naming himself as relator, to prevent appellees, Judge Robert C. McClelland and Magistrate Kevin C. Augustyn, from exercising jurisdiction over a lawsuit filed against a client that Wood represents. The Eighth District Court of Appeals denied the writ on the grounds that Wood lacked standing to file suit. We affirm. Background

{¶ 2} Wood filed an original action for a writ of prohibition in the Eighth District Court of Appeals. He alleged that Judge McClelland was the assigned judge on Cuyahoga County Court of…