A failed judicial candidate was temporarily suspended from the practice of law last week when a divided Ohio Supreme Court determined he made patently false statements about his opponent during the last leg of his campaign. Ronnie Michael Tamburrino of Rock Creek had been charged by the high court’s Disciplinary Counsel with violations of the [...]
Two former University of Cincinnati students who alleged bias and a lack of due process in the school’s disciplinary process lost their appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit this week. The unidentified male students, John Doe I and II, were both students at UC in March 2014 when they [...]
An American tire distributor recently won a small victory in an Ohio federal court against a Chinese tire producer. Horizon Tire Inc. alleged in counterclaims filed in Ohio that Chinese company Linglong Americas and its subsidiaries breached a contract agreement, misappropriated trade secrets and failed to pay back a multimillion dollar loan. The counterclaims, filed [...]
A sharply divided panel of judges in the United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed habeas corpus relief for Genesis Hill last week with a majority ruling that recognized evidence that was suppressed at trial, but that cited a statute of limitations for so-called “Brady” claims. Hill was sentenced to death in the Hamilton [...]
In the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, a panel of three judges recently ruled that an excessive force lawsuit was improperly dismissed by a lower court. The ruling reversed the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio which dismissed an action brought by Todd Webster in [...]
A federal court of appeals recently held that a district court did not engage in the proper analysis when ordering restitution to be paid from a spouse’s assets. A three-judge appellate panel in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to hold an evidentiary [...]
In the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a woman lost her appeal in a discrimination suit in which she claimed that an Ohio law firm fired her for taking medical leave. The firm, Weltman Weinberg & Reis, which operates offices in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and Florida, claimed it began a multiphase reduction in [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recently ruled that a lower court properly ruled on a contract dispute between an energy company and a mineral interest company. The judgment affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, which granted judgment on the pleadings to defendant [...]
Ohio residents who challenged fracking on former federal land recently lost their appeal in the United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. A divided three-judge appellate panel in the federal court ruled that the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, a state entity responsible for flood control in eastern Ohio, did not violate the terms of a [...]
One of the founders of former beverage brand OXYwater who was found to have defrauded investors lost his appeal this week in federal court. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found that Thomas Jackson, of Powell, was properly convicted and sentenced on charges of wire fraud, money [...]