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Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. Its boundaries were originally quite large, including all of northeastern Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River, but it was divided and redrawn several times before assuming its present-day boundaries in 1833, after the formation of neighboring Carroll County.
They are the only trial courts created by the Ohio Constitution (in Article IV, Section 1). The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas. The Ohio General Assembly (the state legislature) has the power to divide courts of common pleas into divisions, and has done so ...
Bezaleel Wells (January 28, 1773 – August 14, 1846) was an American politician, judge, surveyor and landowner from Ohio. He was known as the founder of Steubenville and Canton. He was a member of the Ohio Senate, representing Jefferson County from 1803 to 1804.
Location of Jefferson County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude ...
Batchelder did not seek re-election in 1998 and won election to the Medina County Court of Common Pleas. Chuck Calvert: Republican: January 3, 1999 – December 31, 2006 Calvert was term-limited in 2006. Bill Batchelder: Republican: January 2, 2007 – present Batchelder served as Speaker of the House from 2011 to 2014 and was term-limited in 2014.
The lowest level is the courts of common pleas, the intermediate-level courts are the district courts of appeals, and the highest-ranking court is the Ohio Supreme Court. Ohio municipal and county courts hear cases involving traffic violations, non-traffic misdemeanors, evictions and small civil claims (in which the amount in controversy does ...
CANTON ‒ The ongoing court case of a 27-year-old Canton resident accused of killing and eating a cat has become an unlikely part of the debate over presidential campaign issues, at least among ...
Courts of Ohio include: State courts of Ohio The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus, headquarters of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Supreme Court of Ohio [1] Ohio District Courts of Appeal (12 districts) [2] Ohio Court of Claims [3] Ohio Courts of Common Pleas [4] Ohio Municipal Courts [4] Ohio County Courts [4] Ohio Mayor's Courts