GOODMAN, DIR., OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, APPELLANT, v. HANSEMAN, ADMR., ET AL., APPELLEES.
No. 2010-2159
Supreme Court of Ohio
April 12, 2012
132 Ohio St.3d 23, 2012-Ohio-1587
Submitted November 1, 2011
Heinzerling Law Office and Mark Heinzerling, for appellant.
Per Curiam.
{¶ 1} To have appellate standing, a party must be “aggrieved by the final order appealed from.” State ex rel. Merrill v. Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources, 130 Ohio St.3d 30, 2011-Ohio-4612, 955 N.E.2d 935, ¶ 28, quoting Ohio Contract Carriers Assn., Inc. v. Pub. Util. Comm., 140 Ohio St. 160, 42 N.E.2d 758 (1942), syllabus. Accord State ex rel. Gabriel v. Youngstown, 75 Ohio St.3d 618, 665 N.E.2d 209 (1996). Appellees, the cross-appellants below, did not have standing to appeal the decision of the trial court. Accordingly, the portion of the court of appeals decision concerning the powers of the Division of Securities is vacated.
So ordered.
O‘CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O‘DONNELL, LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur.
Michael DeWine, Attorney General, Alexandra T. Schimmer, Solicitor General, Stephen P. Carney, Deputy Solicitor, and Cheryl R. Hawkinson and Dennis P. Smith Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.
Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, L.L.P., Ralph W. Kohnen, and Eric Combs, for appellee Alice Jane Dillabaugh.