On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Mao Ju filed a complaint in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking writs of mandamus and prohibition against Judge Jonathan P. Hein of the Greene County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division. The complaint centers on a dispute over the approval of uncontested statements of evidence and proceedings.

Mao Ju is asking the Supreme Court to compel Judge Hein to fulfill what she argues is a ministerial duty under App.R. 9(C) to settle and approve her statements. Additionally, she seeks a writ of prohibition to halt a hearing in Case No. 2022 DR 0115, citing the lack of an appellate record.

According to the complaint, Judge Hein has twice refused to perform his duty under App.R. 9(C). The Second District Court of Appeals has confirmed that this duty exists and is mandatory. Mao Ju claims that the Second District then imposed a requirement lacking any basis in App.R. 9(C), which has blocked enforcement. She asserts that no lower state court can provide a remedy.

Mao Ju states that she filed four uncontested App.R. 9(C) statements, but the respondent has refused to approve all four. She argues that App.R. 9(C) serves as Ohio’s substitute for a transcript when no transcript is available.

The complaint outlines that the trial court’s February 12, 2025, order specified that the court reporter would not record Mao Ju’s English testimony and prohibited all official and unofficial electronic recording of the February 18, 2025, final hearing, resulting in no available transcript. Mao Ju also claims she cannot afford a transcript of the October 29 and November 17, 2025, proceedings.

Mao Ju argues that the three elements for a writ of mandamus are satisfied: a clear legal right to the relief sought, a clear legal duty of the respondent to perform the act, and no adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.

Mao Ju requests the Ohio Supreme Court to accept the complaint, issue an alternative writ in prohibition to stay the hearing, grant expedited consideration, and issue peremptory writs of prohibition and mandamus. She asks the court to direct Judge Hein to immediately settle and approve all of her App.R. 9(C) statements.

A copy of the original filing can be found here.