State Ex Rel. Ohio Legal Rights Service v. Belskis

Whiteside, Judge.

By this original action in prohibition, relator, Ohio Legal Rights Service, seeks a writ prohibiting respondent, Franklin County Probate Judge Lawrence Belskis, from conducting hearings pursuant to R.C. 5122.271 for the purpose of authorizing involuntary imposition of electroconvulsive therapy (“ECT”), specifically a hearing in regard to patient “James B.”

The action now is before this court upon a motion for respondent for summary judgment supported by an affidavit of the referee of the probate division of the common pleas court to whom the specific matter was held, namely…