Ohio

‘Race rater’ evidence blocked in EEOC bias suit over Kaplan credit checks; case gets tossed

Kaplan Higher Education Corp. has won dismissal of a lawsuit that alleged its hiring credit checks discriminated against black job applicants. U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan of Cleveland granted summary judgment for the company on Monday after blocking an EEOC expert witness, the New York Times reports. The expert had…

Jan 30, 2013 4:04 PM CST

Video captures courtroom attack of woman seeking protection order

All was apparently well until a magistrate judge reportedly left an Ohio domestic violence courtroom during a Friday hearing last week to see if the respondent had any pending arrest warrants. Almost immediately after the judge left and another woman entered the courtroom, a security video for the Summit County…

Jan 29, 2013 11:30 PM CST

Teacher with child phobia sues school for disability discrimination, says she was forced to retire

A high school French teacher in Ohio has sued her district, contending that her reassignment to a school that has elementary students constituted disability discrimination because she has a phobic fear of young children. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, had taught for decades in the Mariemont School District, which allegedly accommodated…

Jan 15, 2013 8:06 PM CST

Ohio Gov Avoids Obesity Execution Issue re 450-Pound Inmate, Grants Clemency on Another Basis

Sidestepping the issue of whether Ronald Post, at approximately 450 pounds, is too overweight to be humanely executed, Ohio’s chief executive has granted him clemency on another basis. Gov. John Kasich on Monday commuted Post’s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole, saying that this was appropriate, regardless…

Dec 17, 2012 10:55 PM CST

Ohio’s Calfee Halter Seeks More Partners in New Cincinnati Office

Ohio’s Calfee Halter & Griswold has posted the Help Wanted sign for partners in Cincinnati. The 160-attorney firm launched a new office there earlier this year, which now has four lawyers. However, it hopes to grow the attorney roster there to 30 within the foreseeable future, according to the Business…

Dec 10, 2012 10:45 PM CST

Ohio Lawyer Sues Mugshot Websites, Claims Right-of-Publicity Violation

An Ohio lawyer has filed a lawsuit that claims five websites that publish mugshots are violating state law. The websites will remove mugshots if individuals pay a fee, and that is the problem, according to Toledo lawyer Scott Ciolek. He says the websites are violating a right-of-publicity law that generally…

Dec 7, 2012 12:00 PM CST

Former Ohio AG Loses Law License for 6 Months Over Ethics Violations While In Office

A former state attorney general has had his law license suspended for six months by the Ohio Supreme Court. An attorney discipline board previously found that Marc Edward Dann engaged in conduct that adversely reflected on his fitness to practice law by soliciting improper compensation and filing false financial disclosures…

Nov 20, 2012 6:04 PM CST

She Did The Crime, She Holds the ‘Idiot’ Sign as Others Honk and Jeer re Illegal School Bus Pass

A woman who took a plea that requires her to hold a disparaging “only an idiot” sign at the scene of her crime—driving past a school bus on the sidewalk, near a day care center—is complying with her sentence. Shena Hardin, 32, stood out in the cold in Cleveland on…

Nov 13, 2012 9:09 PM CST

Newly Elected Ohio Justice Is Surprised After Low-Budget Win; Slogan Was ‘No Money from Nobody’

A candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court has eked out a win with a campaign budget of only $4,000. William O’Neill had shunned campaign donations and campaigned on the theme “no money from nobody,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. A former trial lawyer and appeals court judge, his current job…

Nov 13, 2012 12:00 PM CST

6th Circuit: Lawyer Must Pay $300K for Using Stock Photos to Create Morphed Child Porn Trial Exhibit

A federal appeals court has approved a $300,000 award against an Ohio lawyer rejecting the attorney’s arguments that he had a First Amendment right to morph stock photos into child pornography as part of a defense trial exhibit and that no one was harmed by his doing so. Dean Boland…

Nov 12, 2012 6:08 PM CST

See the Video: Driver Uses Sidewalk to Get Around School Bus, Is Busted; Plea Requires ‘Idiot’ Sign

A Cleveland woman who reportedly had more than once used the same stretch of sidewalk to pass a stopped school bus has taken a plea after being brought to justice with the help of a cellphone video taken by the bus driver and a Sept. 11 police sting. Originally charged…

Nov 6, 2012 5:05 PM CST

Ohio Recount Rules, Ban on Some Election Suits Could Bring Delays, Legal Issues

Quirks of Ohio elections law could prolong the results and spur legal questions. Large numbers of provisional ballots are likely in Ohio, and those ballots cast by people overseas or in the military can’t begin to be counted until Nov. 17, the New York Times reports. If the official canvas…

Nov 6, 2012 1:24 PM CST

Three Voting Lawsuits Filed; Provisional Ballots Could Be Big Battleground

Democrats have filed lawsuits in Florida and Ohio in a preview of the litigation likely to swirl around the election. In Florida, two suits were filed. Democrats sued on Sunday to extend early voting in South Florida after some people were unable to vote because of long lines, report the…

Nov 5, 2012 12:46 PM CST

Attorney Found Guilty of Misdemeanor Law Firm Theft, Acquitted by Judge on Over 15 Felony Charges

An Ohio lawyer was found guilty after a bench trial Friday of a misdemeanor petty theft from his former law firm, because he had a client make out a $500 check to him personally and did not share the payment. However, Jesse Jackson Jr., 48, was acquitted by Butler County…

Oct 29, 2012 8:46 PM CDT

Detective: Murder Suspect Said She Gave Lawyer Boyfriend the Nose Job He Wanted

A woman accused of killing her lawyer boyfriend told authorities she shot the man multiple times during a heated argument at his Kentucky condominium, according to testimony by a Kentucky police detective at a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Judge Karen Thomas revoked bond for the suspect, Shayna Hubers, after testimony…

Oct 26, 2012 12:28 PM CDT