State ex rel. Sharif v. Cuyahoga County Court

For the following reasons, the court of appeals properly granted the common pleas court’s motion and dismissed the case.

Initially, as the court of appeals held, a writ of mandamus will not issue to compel an act already performed. State ex rel. Eads v. Callahan (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 405, 406, 696 N.E.2d 581, 582; State ex rel. Jerninghan v. Cuyahoga Cty. Court of Common Pleas (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 278, 279, 658 N.E.2d 723, 724. Therefore, Sharif was not entitled to a -writ of mandamus to compel the common pleas court to rule on his two motions because the common pleas court had already…