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Here is a list of major FOIA court decisions and their affect on the Ohio Open Records Law.

Article	Year	Precedent
Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. City of Akron	1965	Established no common law right to public access of meetings.
State ex rel. Fostoria Daily Review Co. v. Fostoria Hospital Association	1988	Established that the minutes of meetings of nonprofits, specifically hospitals, are subject to public records.
State ex rel. Plain Dealer v. Cleveland	1996	This case, based on the separation of powers, rendered constitutional officers exempt from public records requests, but not the entire executive nor the executive offices of political subdivisions.
State ex rel. Steffen v. Kraft	1993
State ex rel. Toledo Blade v. University of Toledo Foundation	1992	Established that private corporations functioning in a public capacity are subject to open records request.
State ex rel. WBNS TV Inc. v. Dues	2004
State ex rel. Warren Newspapers Inc. v. Hutson	1994
State of Ohio v. Allen	2005
TBC Westlake Inc. v. Hamilton County Board of Revision	1998	That quasi-judicial bodies, like judicial bodies are exempt with regards to deliberative process.
The Cincinnati Enquirer v. Walter Handy and Malcolm Adcock	2005
Wells v. Lewis	1901	This case established the importance and justification for open records in Ohio prior to the 1963 legislation.