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The Supreme Court of Ohio justices have reasoned that because the city of Maumee never adopted a section of state law outlining the manner in which an elected official may be removed from office, its residents have no mechanism by which to undertake such action. The dispute arose from a recall-election effort in which five [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan of Texas’s Eastern District last week found that the rule exceeded the CFPB ‘s authority. Jordan said the Consumer Financial [...]
Unpersuaded by the arguments of a Westerville man who appealed the judgment in his personal injury claim against Kroger, a shopping center owner and a snow-removal company, a Franklin County Appeals Court panel affirmed the lower court ruling. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel determined that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court was neither [...]
A former Delaware County home-daycare operator charged with three counts of kidnapping and more than a dozen counts of endangering children failed to convince an appellate panel that the trial court was wrong to deny her request to replace counsel at the plea hearing. The Fifth District Court of Appeals found that 53-year-old Rhonda Coomes’ [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel affirmed the conviction of a 29-year-old northeast Columbus man, despite his claim that the judgment of the lower court was against the manifest weight of the evidence. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel held that Carlos Brime’s conviction for violating a civil protection order was not against the manifest [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio determined a trial court was correct to rule that a Bay Village property owner need not identify a sanitary-sewer running through his lakefront property as a “material defect” in a real estate transaction. Just as the dissenting appellate judge wrote in consideration of the appeal of the original claim brought [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York state law holding gun manufacturers potentially liable when their weapons are used in deadly shootings was upheld last week by a federal appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan affirmed a decision by an Albany judge. A three-judge appeals panel said [...]
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a federal appeals court just days before it was set to go into effect. The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes, adopted in October, required businesses to obtain a customer’s consent before [...]
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel reversed a trial court ruling in which the judge failed to conduct a proper review of evidence, instead relying on dashcam video captured by an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper. The three-judge panel accepted the state’s argument that the trial court was mistaken to base its ruling solely [...]
A Franklin County Appeals Court panel this week affirmed a trial court’s judgment that a state law devised to preempt Ohio cities’ regulation of tobacco products is unconstitutional. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel found that R.C. 9.681 blatantly disregarded the state constitution’s Home Rule Amendment, which grants municipalities independent authority to exercise all [...]