Slow pace of Ohio Supreme Court rulings:  The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this editorial, entitled "Your Honor, wake up: The wheels of justice often grind so slowly in Ohio that it's difficult to tell whether they're moving at all," noting the increasing length of time taken by the Ohio Supreme Court to issue rulings, as noted in this report by Reginald Fields in the Sunday PD, entitled "The slow wheels of justice in Ohio."

Editorial excerpt:
The tortoise-like pace of Ohio's Supreme Court makes a mockery of the term "jus tice."

And since the judges themselves won't require a quicker turnaround from oral argument to issued order, someone else must do it for them. As much as the justices insist they need ample time to deliberate on complex matters, chances are they would operate much more quickly if they were locked in a cell as long as some inmates have waited for their orders. ...