State ex rel. Highlander v. Rudduck

{¶ 1} By assignment, respondent Judge John W. Rudduck presided over Bubp v. Bubp, case No. 2001-0460-DRB, a divorce case filed in the Adams County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division. On January 3, 2003, Judge Rudduck sealed the entire record of the Bubp divorce case, including pleadings, filings, and transcripts. Judge Rudduck sealed the record upon an agreed judgment entry after being “informed that sealing of such records has traditionally been permitted in the Adams County Court.” Relator, Sharon Highlander, counters that the sealing of divorce records was an unwritten and…