State ex rel. Sellers v. Gerken

To obtain a writ of prohibition, Sellers was required to establish (1) that appellees were about to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial power, (2) that the exercise of that power was unauthorized by law, and (3) that denying the writ would result in injury for which no other adequate remedy existed in the ordinary course of law. State ex rel. Fowler v. Smith (1994), 68 Ohio St.3d 357, 359, 626 N.E.2d 950, 952. It is uncontroverted that at the time that Sellers initiated his prohibition action, Judge Gerken had overruled his motion to dismiss the Hocking County defamation action and was about…