BCL Enterprises, Inc. v. Ohio Department of Liquor Control

The sole question we must answer in this appeal is whether the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County is vested with subject-matter jurisdiction over the claims asserted by BCL.

“Subject-matter jurisdiction of a court connotes the power to hear and decide a case upon its merits * * Morrison v. Steiner (1972), 32 Ohio St.2d 86, 61 O.O.2d 335, 290 N.E.2d 841, paragraph one of the syllabus. Section 4(B), Article IV of the Ohio Constitution, states that “[t]he courts of common pleas and divisions thereof shall have such original jurisdiction over all justiciable matters * * * as may be provided…