State ex rel. McGirr v. Winkler (Slip Opinion)

*100{¶ 1} This case is the latest chapter in the ongoing campaign by disbarred attorney Stanley M. Chesley to shelter assets from his judgment creditors. In this original action, relators, Connie McGirr and 18 other judgment creditors ("the creditors"), seek a writ of prohibition to halt an action for an assignment for the benefit of creditors ("the ABC action") pending before respondent, Hamilton County Probate Judge Ralph Winkler.

{¶ 2} Judge Winkler has filed a motion to dismiss the petition. In addition, intervening *930respondent, Eric W. Goering, as assignee of Waite, Schneider, Bayless &…