Above The Law

JULY 26, 2024

Ohio Supreme Court Rules "Boneless" Means Expect Bones Actually: They also can't differentiate between glorified chicken nuggets and fish fillets. The Call Is Coming From Inside The House: Kagan wishes her colleagues actually had to be ethical. Keep Your Eyes On Those Clerkships!

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2022

based organization contains every one of the 9,737 death penalty convictions handed down between the first execution after Gregg and Jan 1, 2021, the Ohio Capital Journal reports. . A database built by the Washington, D.C.-based

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Law 360

MAY 23, 2024

A split Ohio Supreme Court unraveled a trial court ruling in favor of oil and gas rights owner Tera LLC that acted as the basis of a $40 million damages award against Gulfport Energy, reasoning Thursday that there is a "genuine issue of material fact" over the meaning of certain terms in parties' lease agreement.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2024

” The Ohio Supreme Court just ruled that selling a boneless chicken dish does not mean that it is boneless because it is referring to a “cooking style not a guarantee.” The Ohio Supreme Court just issued a ruling amplifying that rule in Berkheimer v. 2019-Ohio-2401, ¶ 67 (DeWine, J.,

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Jackie Salo of The New York Post reports that “ Parents of bullied 8-year-old who died of suicide can sue school district, court rules.” ” Dan Sewell of The Associated Press has a report headlined “ Court: Parents of child who killed himself can sue educators.”

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ohio Supreme Court rules that "business interruption insurance" isn't so much "insurance" for "business interruptions." Supreme Court will return to announcing opinions live from the bench. * If you're keeping track, yes, the Bahamas has an extradition treaty with the United States. Washington Post ].

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court seems to favor tech giants in terror case (Jessica Gresko & Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Supreme Court rules 9-0 that bankruptcy filers can’t avoid debt incurred by another’s fraud (Dan Mangan, CNBC) Supreme Court rejects Ohio man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook (..)

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2023

The former president of two related pipeline companies was rightly awarded a $20 million share of the proceeds of the companies' sale, an Ohio state appeals court ruled Wednesday, because he had been promised as much by the firms' former owner before a third party bought the firms.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Proctor relied on similar federal court cases in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, in which the courts ruled that the federal Voting Rights Act superseded state law under the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. The clause allows federal laws to take precedence over conflicting state laws. .”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A lower Washington state court found that the strike was protected by the NLRA, which would mean the issue is properly heard before the National Labor Relations Board. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 2, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court released its opinion in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor and Ohio v. Department of Labor.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio. But Ohio courts upheld Twyford’s conviction and death sentence, rejecting claims that his counsel performed so poorly that Twyford was denied his constitutional rights. In his view, the court rules limiting discovery thus do not apply.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

“They write the reports, they give the statements, and other people’s accounts are not taken seriously,” Philip Stinson , a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told the Post. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. But when it comes to using deadly force, officers have vast discretion.

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Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Monday that three Chubb units have no duty to defend Rite Aid in suits brought by Ohio counties over the costs of responding to the opioid epidemic, reversing a trial court's finding that the actions sought potentially covered damages.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit disagreed and barred the suit, seeing the compact as more akin to an agreement that New Jersey could — and did — renounce. Ohio attaches to anyone near the shots.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Shoop , Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed her first-ever opinion since her elevation, writing that the Ohio Supreme Court had applied too stringent a standard of materiality in reviewing death-row prisoner Davel Chinn’s claim that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence. And in Chinn v.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

A constitutional ruling by an Alabama judicial body has the rest of the country wondering about its potentially widespread implications. We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. Sound familiar? One such case in the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Although the district court ruled that Sundance had waived its arbitration argument by not making it earlier, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed because of “the absence of a showing of prejudice to Morgan.” Ohio, ex rel. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v.

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SquirePattonBoggs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio and across the U.S., Ohio voters are reasonably anxious about casting their vote in-person—options one and two—as detailed in the A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, et al. LaRose district court proceedings (Polster, J., coincidentally).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. The assistant district attorney, the court of appeals ruled, “vouched for the credibility of the State’s witnesses and improperly commented on” Anthony’s guilt, “while using the prestige and dignity of his office to bolster the State’s case.”.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Some jurisdictions establish a more bright-line rule requiring notice to the organization before communication with clients. For instance, Ohio Supreme Court Ethics Op. Rule of Prof. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Nevertheless, ABA Formal Ethics Op. Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

“As found by the DOJ, the Ferguson Municipal Court used ‘arrest warrants and the threat of arrest as its primary tool for collecting outstanding fines for municipal code violations.’”. Supreme Court Rulings. The authors said courts had long since underlined the Constitutional threat posed by these practices.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. Then 43, he had spent most of his career with the Moraine, Ohio, police department. In one case, Harpster listened to an Ohio mother’s desperate call for help and then wrote back, simply, “Call me. Harpster was rapt.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005 under Supreme Court Rule 799(c) to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in Illinois.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Tim Hagan, a former candidate for the for governor of Ohio, ran a campaign against incumbent Governor Robert Taft riffing off of the famed “AFLAC DUCK” commercials, in which a white duck repeatedly quacks the AFLAC insurance company’s name in a distinctive, nasal tone. One Quacky Dispute.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

Per the court, such speech is protected under the First Amendment, particularly if pronoun preferences go against a professor’s religious or philosophical beliefs. The case stemmed out of a dispute between Professor Nicholas Meriwether and a transgender student at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The Ohio Court of Appeals for the First District Friday rejected the state of Ohio’s request to remove an injunction against its anti-abortion law. The court rejected the claim on jurisdictional grounds. The results of the litigation, in both Ohio and in other states, remains to be seen.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. The circuit split has increased the possibility of a Supreme Court review.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Friday that licensed physicians can legally perform abortions insofar as the fetus is less than 15 weeks old. In September 2022, a trial court ruled that a 1901 near-total abortion ban could be enforced following Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Just this week, the Supreme Court ordered lower courts to take a fresh look at five convictions in light of the decision. In August, prompted by Ruan , federal prosecutors in Ohio dropped their charges against a drug-distribution company known as Miami-Luken and two of its pharmacists.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

While Ohio proposed a bill in November to limit gender-affirming treatment for minors, Oklahoma passed a law in October to withhold COVID relief funds from hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minors. .” SB16 is part of a massive debate on gender-affirming treatment to minors in the US.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 13, 2021

* Ohio conduct board issued new rules of conduct for judges. Also, Ohio is an actual place? Court News Ohio ] * Puff, puff, prison? Court rules the incarcerated can’t smoke weed despite its legality on the outside. I thought that was just a placeholder they put on maps.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week, the justices also turned down – over a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito – a request from Ohio to reinstate the conviction and death sentence of an inmate who was convicted of killing his cellmate. The IRS fined Bittner $2.72

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