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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 [...]
A Franklin County appeals court panel affirmed a trial court’s denial of a Grove City man’s request for a second continuance in a civil protection order hearing. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals determined that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court’s ruling was neither unreasonable nor arbitrary as 55-year-old John McNamee [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students may join. Just two weeks after upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the justices said they will review lower court rulings in favor of transgender athletes in Idaho and West [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Navy Federal Credit Union no longer will have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees on their accounts, after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved to dismiss the case. The case dates from late 2024 and deals with an issue known as “authorized positive [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base, coordinating a cash dead-drop and by participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence. The case, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over the editing of CBS’s “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October. Paramount, which owns CBS, said the money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself. It said [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that a Columbus man indicted on aggravated robbery and related charges had no reasonable expectation of privacy while using a third-party online-marketplace app in the lead up to committing the offense. Justices affirmed the Tenth District Court of Appeals’ reversal of the trial court ruling that allowed 25-year-old Mamadou [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio has denied a Lancaster prison inmate’s motion to compel the Ashtabula County prosecutor to provide records to the inmate that have since been provided to the prosecutor. The state’s high court also denied 35-year-old Alphonso Mobley Jr.’s request for statutory damages and court costs in the recent decision. According to [...]
A federal judge earlier this week rebuffed Apple’s request to throw out a federal government lawsuit alleging the technology company has built a maze of illegal barriers to protect the iPhone from competition and fatten its profit margins. The 33-page opinion from U.S. District Judge Xavier Neals in New Jersey will enable an antitrust lawsuit [...]
Lululemon has filed a lawsuit against Costco that accuses the wholesale club operator of selling lower-priced duplicates of some of its popular athleisure clothing. Lululemon Athletica claims in its lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that Costco has “unlawfully traded” on its reputation, goodwill and sweat equity by [...]