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Updating Ohio's Class Action Rules After More Than Forty Years, Geoffrey J. Ritts

Cleveland State Law Review

In 1970, the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure made their debut. The new set of rules included Civil Rule 23, governing procedure in class actions. Like most of the new Ohio civil rules, Rule 23 closely tracked its federal counterpart, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which itself was then relatively new, having been adopted in 1966. Since 1970, Ohio’s Rule 23 has sat untouched. In the meantime, the Ohio Supreme Court has amended other civil rules more than thirty times. During the more than forty years since Ohio Rule 23 was adopted, there have been significant changes in class-action …