ESPN vs. OSU: From covering sports to news to making it

Unlike their fed­eral coun­ter­parts at the U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio’s seven jus­tices work through­out the year and their sched­ule remains busy through the sum­mer months. Sev­eral major cases found their way onto or off of the Ohio Supreme Court docket in the past week in major, news­wor­thy ways. The largest splash came from a case that found its way onto the docket at the state’s high­est court, not as an appeal, but rather as an orig­i­nal action seek­ing com­pli­ance with the state’s pub­lic records law. Seek­ing to gather all pos­si­ble infor­ma­tion about Ohio State’s recent foot­ball trans­gres­sions, ESPN (along with other media out­lets) is try­ing to gain access to addi­tional emails between OSU offi­cials about the NCAA violations.