State ex rel. Summit County Republican Party Executive Committee v. Brunner

{¶ 116} Ohioans learn something new today: two wrongs can make a writ. Through a unique bit of judicial alchemy, two unrelated concurring opinions that were each able to garner the support of only one other justice have combined to produce four votes to grant a writ of mandamus. A majority of this court thus announces the granting of a writ of mandamus, but cannot exactly put its finger on why; it grants a writ of mandamus on the basis of an unclear legal duty. Especially disturbing is the fact that one of the concurrences is based upon a *541theory of relief so novel that the relator never…