State ex rel. Harris v. Horvath

{¶ 1} On October 10, 2003, appellant, Matthew Scott Harris, an inmate at Mansfield Correctional Institution, filed an application in the Lorain County *186Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, to change the name of his minor son. On that date, appellee, Judge Frank J. Horvath of the probate court, approved Harris’s poverty affidavit, waived the filing fee, and ordered Harris to cause notice of the name-change application to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Lorain County. Harris received a quoted price of $52.20 for the required publication.

{¶ 2} In November 2003, Harris…