State ex rel. Repository, Div. of Thompson Newspapers, Inc. v. Unger

Before addressing the primary issue in this case, we reaffirm our previous holdings that prohibition is the appropriate form of action to prevent the enforcement of an order barring the public and members of the press from the courtroom. State, ex rel. Dayton Newspapers, v. Phillips (1976), 46 Ohio St. 2d 457 [75 O.O.2d 511], paragraph one of the syllabus. A newspaper has standing to seek a writ of prohibition to prevent a trial court from enforcing an order improperly excluding the public and the news media from pretrial hearings. Id. at paragraph two of the syllabus.

We also note that…