The 10th District Court of Appeals last week affirmed the dismissal of a case brought by a student against the Pontifical College Josephinum pursuant to the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. A three-judge appellate panel side with the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in its ruling that the courts lack jurisdiction in the case brought by [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recently ruled that a man who pleaded guilty to enticement and child pornography charges was not tricked into handing over evidence to investigators. The defendant, Gregory Mays, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to producing child pornography and [...]
In the 10th District Court of Appeals, a panel of three judges recently ruled that a Marion Correctional Institution inmate could not appeal the transfer of his case to a different docket. The inmate, Jeffrey Woods, appealed from the entry of the Ohio Court of Claims which transferred to the administrative docket the case that [...]
A federal appeals court this week affirmed the life sentence of a Virginia man convicted of traveling interstate with the intention of engaging in sexual conduct with a minor. The defendant, David Vickers, appealed the sentence he received in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio arguing that he was unfairly [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court will take its show on the road next month as it hears oral arguments in three cases in Morgan County on April 6. The visit, according to the high court’s news service, is the spring iteration of the court’s semi-annual Off-Site Court program, which it does twice a year. “Part of [...]
A unanimous Ohio Supreme Court this week affirmed the Hamilton County Auditor’s $14 million appraisal of a Cincinnati Coca-Cola bottling plant. The appeal from Johnston Coca-Cola Bottling Company Inc. challenged the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals’ refusal to reduce its property tax value for 2011, a reappraisal year in Hamilton County. In a per curiam [...]
A federal court of appeals recently ruled that sentencing mistakes at multiple court levels entitled an inmate convicted on drug conspiracy charges to a third sentencing hearing. The case stemmed from the conviction of Lewis Powell who, in 2014, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine and dealing [...]
In a unanimous per curiam opinion issued last week, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that a London Correctional Institution inmate failed to show that he was entitled to immediate release. The decision affirmed the judgment of the 12th District Court of Appeals which denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a [...]
The 10th District Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was wrongfully compelled to produce emails that were subject to attorney-client privilege. The decision issued by a three-judge appellate panel reversed the judgment of the Environmental Review Appeals Commission which had ruled to compel the discovery of certain communications between the [...]
A contractual dispute between the former CEO of the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and Merrill Lynch saw no change in a federal court of appeals last week when a three-judge appellate panel affirmed judgment in favor of Merrill Lynch. “The ticker symbol for Cedar Fair Entertainment Company — operator of Cedar Point and other amusement [...]