Schussheim v. Schussheim

{¶ 63} I cannot agree that Pepper Pike v. Doe, 66 Ohio St.2d 374, 421 N.E.2d 1303 (1981), supports the new judicial power announced by the majority. The majority conflates a court’s inherent power over its own records with “expungement,” a statutory remedy affecting records held by other branches of government and carrying a license to conceal information from the public. We have missed the opportunity to recognize Pepper Pike for what it was — a narrow, short-lived, judge-made “fix” to Ohio’s nascent criminal expungement statutes. Therefore, I must respectfully dissent.

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