Ohio

Ex-patient sues hospital, says workers posted her medical records on Facebook shaming page

A former patient has sued the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, contending that hospital workers posted her medical records on a Facebook page after she was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. The unidentified plaintiff says two hospital workers were persuaded by her ex-boyfriend to release her medical records, in…

Jun 4, 2014 3:25 PM CDT

Federal judge suspends Ohio executions until Aug. 15

A federal judge has suspended the imposition on the death penalty in Ohio for two and a half months, following a lengthy execution in January using a new combination of drugs that did not go as planned. The Tuesday freeze on executions by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost is intended…

Jun 2, 2014 3:55 PM CDT

Report: No ruling on blanket disqualification motion, but new judge will hear all criminal cases

Although the Ohio Supreme Court hasn’t yet ruled on a prosecutor’s blanket disqualification motion, a new judge is in place to hear all criminal cases on the docket of Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge, reports the Chronicle-Telegram. Earlier this week, county prosecutor Dennis Will asked that Burge be…

May 30, 2014 6:01 PM CDT

Prosecutor asks top court to block judge from hearing all 280 cases handled by his office

An Ohio prosecutor has asked the state’s top court to disqualify a Lorain County judge from hearing all 276 criminal and four civil cases being pursued by his office. County Prosecutor Dennis Will says in an Ohio Supreme Court filing on Wednesday that Court of Common Pleas Judge James Burge…

May 29, 2014 6:19 PM CDT

Former state bar president gets two-year suspension for filing false tax returns

The Ohio Supreme Court has imposed a two-year suspension on a former state bar president who pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns. Leslie Jacobs was suspended for two years, with credit for the time he was on an interim suspension that began in April 2012, report Cleveland.com and…

May 28, 2014 4:40 PM CDT

Judge OK’d warrant to search public defender’s office over evidence dispute in theft case

A misdemeanor retail theft case in Ohio ended earlier this month when the defendant took a plea and was sentenced to the 64 days he had already served awaiting trial. But the Hamilton County case still reverberates with both the prosecution and the defense, due to an evidence dispute that…

May 20, 2014 3:40 PM CDT

More falcons join courthouse nesting trend; baby birds may hatch in Ohio clock tower by end of month

Two peregrine falcons have taken up residence in an Ohio courthouse whose clock tower is the highest spot in Ottawa County. Now baby birds are anticipated before the end of the month, after state officials and local volunteers monitoring a nesting box with a see-through wall found spotted four eggs…

May 8, 2014 11:00 PM CDT

Dinsmore adds Thompson Coburn team to growing Chicago office; new partner is now chief there

A onetime associate of Dinsmore & Shohl has returned to his former firm as a partner in charge of its new Chicago office. After a nearly 10-year stint at Thompson Coburn, where he became a corporate partner, Robert “Bobby” Lucas led a three other Thompson Coburn lawyers, including two partners,…

May 6, 2014 8:50 PM CDT

Dad puts 2 large photo posters at Navy son’s grave, leading to litigation

Fred Molai says he purchased 15 plots at Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent, Ohio, before creating a shrine to his dead son there that is 16 feet wide and eight feet high, covering only five of the plots. In addition to a tombstone engraved with the picture of Adam Molai,…

Apr 28, 2014 11:30 AM CDT

Police post video of woman taking toy duck from child’s grave at Easter; soon a suspect is charged

Updated: After toys left on a child’s grave in Ohio repeatedly disappeared, police in Ontario put up a hidden camera. Over the Easter weekend, it captured images of a woman taking a stuffed yellow duck that had been placed on the grave of Hayden “Tank” Cole Sheridan hours earlier. He…

Apr 24, 2014 5:30 PM CDT

Scalia uses ‘Ministry of Truth’ example from Orwell book as SCOTUS mulls Ohio law on political lies

The U.S. Supreme Court is only being asked to decide whether an anti-abortion group has standing in federal district court to challenge an Ohio law that criminalizes political lies. But members of the nation’s top court on Tuesday couldn’t resist offering a preview of what they think about the constitutionality…

Apr 23, 2014 4:05 PM CDT

Man ordered to display ‘I am a bully’ sign is jeered during his punishment

An Ohio man ordered to hold a sign reading “I am a bully” was jeered by passersby as he carried out the punishment on Sunday. Edmond Aviv, 62, was ordered to hold the sign as part of his sentence for harassing his neighbors, report Northeast Ohio Media Group and Reuters.…

Apr 14, 2014 12:06 PM CDT

Former Ohio AG supports convicted murderer’s bid to overturn conviction

Former Ohio Attorney General James Petro is supporting a convicted murderer’s bid to overturn his conviction. Convicted murder Alfred Cleveland is asking a federal judge to overturn his 1991 murder conviction after his accuser recanted his testimony, report the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Chronicle-Telegram and the Morning Journal. In an…

Apr 8, 2014 1:51 PM CDT

Suspended lawyer, a convicted sex offender, must vacate home near school, prosecutors say

Prosecutors are asking an Ohio judge to order a lawyer who pleaded guilty in a child porn case to move out of his home near an elementary school in a Columbus suburb. The lawyer, William Bernard Feldman, was suspended (PDF) by the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday, the Legal Profession…

Apr 2, 2014 12:05 PM CDT

‘Naked photographer’ wins reinstatement of his law license

A former Ohio lawyer dubbed the “naked photographer” by the news media has won reinstatement of his law license, subject to some conditions. The Ohio Supreme Court reinstated (PDF) former Columbus lawyer Stephen Linnen on Monday, report the Columbus Dispatch, NBC4i.com and the Associated Press. Linnen, formerly legal counsel to…

Mar 20, 2014 1:47 PM CDT