State ex rel. Durrani v. Ruehlman (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} We reverse the First District Court of Appeals’ judgment denying the writs of mandamus and prohibition requested by appellants, the defendants in a multitude of underlying medical-malpractice cases. Appellants seek to require appellee, Judge Robert P. Ruehlman of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, to transfer the underlying cases back to the judges to whom they were originally assigned and to enjoin him from entering orders in the cases not originally assigned to him.

{¶ 2} Appeal in this case is not an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. And Judge Ruehlman…