State ex rel. Weaver v. Lake County Board of Commissioners

Relator, Judge William W. Weaver of the Court of Common Pleas of Lake County, Juvenile Division,1 seeks a writ of mandamus to compel respondents, the Lake County Board of Commissioners, to appropriate funds requested, but not allocated, for the juvenile court’s 1990 operating expenses. Previously, in State, ex rel. Lake Cty. Bd. of Commrs., v. Hoose (1991), 58 Ohio St.3d 220, 569 N.E.2d 1046, we affirmed a court of appeals judgment that granted a writ of mandamus to compel appropriations for the juvenile court’s 1989 operating needs. There, we held that the court’s 1989 budget, which included…