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An Ohio appellate panel reversed a municipal court’s ruling that denied a Lancaster woman’s effort to seal the eviction record filed against her by the owner of a rental property. A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed the Fairfield County Municipal Court holding that the rules governing the sealing of court [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court earlier this week rejected a pair of gun-rights cases, though one justice predicted the court would soon consider whether assault weapons bans are constitutional. The majority did not explain its reasoning in turning down the cases over high-capacity magazines and state bans on guns such as the AR-15, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has formally moved to dismiss a criminal fraud charge against Boeing and has asked a judge to cancel an upcoming trial connected to two plane crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia, according to court documents filed late last week. The deal [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week narrowed the scope of environmental reviews required for major infrastructure projects in a ruling that could accelerate development of railroads, highways and pipelines around the country. The 8-0 decision follows an appeal to the high court from backers of a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion project in Utah, [...]
Snack food maker Mondelez International is suing the Aldi supermarket chain, alleging the packaging for Aldi’s store-brand cookies and crackers “blatantly copies” Mondelez products such as Chips Ahoy, Wheat Thins and Oreos. In a federal lawsuit filed last week in Illinois, Chicago-based Mondelez said Aldi’s packaging was “likely to deceive and confuse customers” and threatened [...]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — CVS and Express Scripts asked a federal judge last week to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in Arkansas, challenging the first such restriction enacted by a state. The lawsuits come a little more than a month after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The justices left in place lower court decisions allowing the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land, known as Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, which [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge last week struck down regulations requiring most U.S. employers to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions. The ruling by U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana was a victory for conservative lawmakers and religious groups who decried the Equal Employment [...]
A western Ohio lawmaker has proposed legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives to repeal a section of state law that clashes with the Parents Bill of Rights, which went into effect in April. Rep. Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, told members of the Health Committee last week that R.C. 5122.04, which states mental health services may [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court this week reversed an Eighth District Court of Appeals ruling that affirmed a lower court decision that failed to appropriately sentence a defendant who committed a felony offense while in possession of a firearm. The majority reasoned that R.C. 2929.13(F)(8) requires a trial court to impose a prison sentence on an [...]