State v. Board of County Commissioners

The principles of law which are applicable to the case in controversy have been previously set forth by this court on numerous occasions. The underlying rationale gleaned from our past decisions is, quite simply, to secure the preservation of judicial autonomy. As this court recently stated in State, ex rel. Arbaugh, v. Richland Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (1984), 14 Ohio St. 3d 5, at 6, “[w]e recognize that the power to control what a court spends, or to totally regulate the process of obtaining funds, ultimately becomes the power to control what the court does. Such a principle is an anathema to an…