The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recently affirmed a lower court judgment against a lawyer who alleged a conspiracy to deprive her of her law license. The plaintiff, Georgianna Parisi, brought a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the Montgomery County Prosecuting Office and [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled that a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge “patently and unambiguously” lacked jurisdiction to consolidate and hear hundreds of medical malpractice cases filed against a doctor. The per curiam decision reversed the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals denying a writ of mandamus and prohibition requested by [...]
A divided Ohio Supreme Court recently rejected a Board of Professional Conduct recommendation to impose stayed suspensions for two attorneys charged with multiple ethical violations related to services they had performed for an elderly client. Nancy Zoller of Lyndhurst and Edward Mamone of Cleveland were both admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in [...]
In a federal court of appeals last week, a group of inmates on death row lost their appeal challenging the constitutionality of a newly enacted statutory scheme concerning the confidentiality of information related to lethal injection. A divided 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ronald Phillips, Raymond Tibbetts and Robert Van Hook lacked standing [...]
A former software corporation president who was charged with violating federal tax laws lost his appeal this week in the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. John Rankin was charged by a grand jury with 17 counts of tax violations but he moved to dismiss in the United States District Court for the Southern District [...]
The 10th District Court of Appeals affirmed a Franklin County man’s aggravated murder conviction. The defendant, Jonathan Hairston, appealed from the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, where he was convicted on the murder charge with gun specifications. Hairston claimed that his conviction was not supported by sufficient evidence nor that the [...]
The dismissal of an action in mandamus was affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court in a recent decision that addressed an appeal from a man who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The defendant, Daniel Littlepage, appealed from the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals where he was denied a writ of mandamus in [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently affirmed the denial of a writ of mandamus for a man convicted of attempted murder. The per curiam decision affirmed the judgment of the 8th District Court of Appeals which dismissed Samuel Tucker’s complaint for a writ of mandamus. Tucker pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping in 2002 [...]
A prison inmate who claimed that his aggravated murder conviction was obtained by “fraud and trickery” lost his appeal this week when the Ohio Supreme Court considered his case. Defendant Richard Curtis raised claims concerning his assertion that a coroner amended his victim’s death certificate without authority. He sought relief in a petition for a [...]
The federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed the forfeiture of more than $500,000 and more than 100 pieces of jewelry from a doctor and his wife who ran a sham pain management clinic. Dr. Syed Ahktar Zaidi and his wife, Erum Zaidi, ran Pain Management of Northern Ohio Inc. where, in 2012 [...]