A federal court of appeals this week ruled that a police officer was partially entitled to immunity in a false arrest and malicious prosecution dispute. A three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found that defendant Ron Robinson did not have qualified immunity on false arrest claims but did [...]
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law will host the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals this Thursday for a hearing. The federal armed forces appellate court will hear oral arguments in the case of United States v. Cox in Saxbe Auditorium at 4 p.m. The case involves the 2015 California conviction of Donald [...]
In one of several year-end decisions released by the Ohio Supreme Court as part of its transition process, a divided court ruled in favor of the Ford Motor Company in a faulty fuel tank case. In an appeal to the high court, Ross Linert, a veteran police officer with the Austintown Township Police, contended that [...]
A divided federal court of appeals recently reversed a partial grant of habeas corpus relief for a death-row prisoner. The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled last week that Quisi Bryan was not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, overruling the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Northern [...]
A divided federal court of appeals recently ruled 2-1 that a transgender female student in Ohio will be allowed to continue using a girls’ restroom for now. The case is one of many court battles being waged nationwide over whether Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects transgender students through existing civil rights [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently ruled that offenders must be granted an opportunity to speak on their own behalf at community control revocation hearings. The high court made the decision upon an appeal from the state from the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals in the case against Dominic Jackson. Court documents [...]
An investment adviser who admitted to defrauding several clients lost his appeal for a shorter sentence and lower restitution amount in federal court last week. Jason Cox pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to several counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering and was sentenced [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio this week resolved a dispute between two lower courts regarding the sealing of records in attempted robbery cases. The unanimous high court, in an opinion authored by Justice Paul Pfeifer, determined that attempted robbery is considered a “crime of violence” and is therefore ineligible for expungement, or a sealed record. [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently imposed a stayed one-year suspension from the practice of law on an Akron attorney who was the subject of a civil action for delinquent taxes. The lawyer, Timothy Harman Champion, was admitted to the practice of law in the state in 1988. Last year, the city of Akron filed a [...]
A panel of judges in the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently declined to issue a ruling on a defendant’s motion to vacate a sentence that was enhanced by a firearm provision in the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Writing on behalf of the three-judge appellate panel, Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey held the appeal of [...]