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Summarizes news of interest to the local legal community. New Cleveland Ordinances and important local court cases (local municipal courts, Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas, Eighth District Court of Appeals) are highlighted along with some Ohio Supreme Court, Sixth Circuit cases, U.S. Supreme Court and State and Federal Statutes.

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Do You Still Want to Chaperone Your Kids' Trips?

Posted on June 26, 2008
On the heels of a $700,000 judgment against a mom who chaperoned her daughter's cheerleading trip to Hawaii, you have to ask yourself if you still want to chaperone your kids' school trips. Even though newsnet5.com reported that a student...

CWRU Study Blames Subprime Loans for Cuyahoga Foreclosures

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University has just issued a study in which the results definitively link subprime loans to a large portion of the foreclosures in Cuyahoga County. Crain's reports that the...

8th District Appeals Court Returning to Former Method of Issuing Opinions

Posted on June 23, 2008
The 8th District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County is in the process of returning to its former system of distributing new opinions as soon as they are announced. This means that you will immediately be able to access opinions...

Cleveland Asks Cuyahoga CP Court to Stop Foreclosures

Posted on June 10, 2008
In a Council resolution passed yesterday, the City of Cleveland has asked the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to stop all new and existing foreclosure actions where the debtors are still living in their homes. The CP Court recently posted...

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Cuyahoga County CP Court Getting a New Court Administrator

Posted on June 09, 2008
Starting August 1, 2008, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court will have a new Court Administrator named Gregory M. Popovich. Mr. Popovich will succeed Judge Thomas Pokorny, who presently serves as Court Administrator and will step down to become a visiting...

Cuyahoga County Sued Over Voting Machines

Posted on June 05, 2008
Newsnet5.com reports that Premier Election Solutions has sued Cuyahoga County, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, the Cuyahoga County Commissioners, and the Ohio Secretary of State in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Case No.08 CV 007841, claiming that it fulfilled...

Private Clubs Subject to Smoking Law

Posted on June 04, 2008
Today, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a discretionary appeal in Case No.2008-0356, filed by the Ohio Department of Health to challenge Ohio's relatively new anti-smoking law as applied to private clubs and veterans' halls. The Court's decision confirms that the...

Ohio County Law Library Legislation is Pending

Posted on June 03, 2008
Last Thurday, Ohio Senator David Goodman introduced legislation related to Ohio's county law libraries as SB 345. The full text of the proposed bill can be located at the Ohio Legislative Service Commission's web site. Please read the text of...

Ohio Enacts New 28% Cap on Payday Lending Rates

Posted on June 03, 2008
Yesterday, Governor Strickland signed a new law, known as HB 545, that places a 28% cap on payday lending interest rates. Although the Plain Dealer reports that lenders are complaining that they will be crippled and have to close up...

New Policy on Release of 8th District Appellate Court Opinions

Posted on May 29, 2008
As we reported in an earlier post this week, the 8th District Appellate Court has created a new policy that it is continuing to re-think on the release of its opinions. As the Plain Dealer reports, the Court will release...

OSU Dean to Sub as New Ohio AG

Posted on May 29, 2008
Governer Strickland has appointed Ohio State University College of Law Dean Nancy Rodgers as the Ohio Attorney General for the next 5 months. To fill this temporary position until a new AG can be elected in November, Dean Rodgers has...

Cleveland Prevails on Appeal of Residency Rule

Posted on May 23, 2008
Yesterday, the 8th District Court of Appeals announced its decision in City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio (Case No. 89565 on the Court's docket), upholding the City of Cleveland's exercise of home rule to require police officers and other...

Stark County Cutting Jurors' Pay

Posted on May 23, 2008
Newsnet5.com reports that the Stark County Commissioners are suspending most of the payments jurors in Canton's Common Pleas Court would otherwise receive for answering the call to jury service. Budget crunches are everywhere, and now they are affecting the budget...

Cuyahoga Appellate Judge Mary Boyle Sat On Ohio Supreme Court

Posted on May 22, 2008
Local 8th District appellate Judge Mary J. Boyle sat as a visitng judge on the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday. As the Supreme Court's Press Release indicates, Judge Boyle replaced Judge Cupp (who recused himself) on the case captioned Beneficial Ohio...

Bill Mason on Short List for Ohio AG Job

Posted on May 21, 2008
In the wake of Marc Dann's resignation as Ohio Attorney General, a number of candidates' names are being suggested as Dann's replacement. One of those potentials is local Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, who has been quoted as saying it...

Smoking Ban To Be Tested at Columbus Hearing

Posted on May 20, 2008
Newsnet5.com reports that Ohio's new smoking ban will be put to the test at a hearing in Columbus on Wednesday. According to the news, a Columbus bar called Zeno's Victorian Village has been cited multiple times for violating the new...

Demjanjuk Loses in U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on May 20, 2008
The United States Supreme Court has declined to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari to John Demjanjuk, a local resident of Seven Hills, Ohio who has been accused of being Ivan (also spelled Iwan) the Terrible, a Nazi...

Ohio Supreme Court To Consider Employee Residency Laws

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Ohio Supreme Court has decided to tackle employee residency requirements that have been at issue in various communities in Ohio. Without consolidating the matters, the Court will hear separate arguments the same day in 2 cases involving the extent...

Ohio Supreme Court to Amend Rules on Guardian Ad Litem

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Ohio Supreme Court has published a proposed a new Rule regarding the appointment and performance of guardians ad litem. This brand new rule would apply whenever a common pleas court judge appoints a guardian ad litem in a domestic...

Judge Calabrese Sat on Ohio Supreme Court

Posted on May 12, 2008
According to a recent Ohio Supreme Court Press Release, Judge Anthony O. Calabrese, Jr. of our local Eighth District Court of Appeals, recently sat as a visiting judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio in the case of State of...

Ohio AG Dann Likely Headed for Impeachment Proceedings

Posted on May 12, 2008
If the Democrats keep their promise, Ohio's Attorney General, Marc Dann, will soon be involved in impeachment proceedings. As of this weekend, they already stripped Dann of their party's 2006 endorsement of him for Attorney General, and the process is...

PACER Is Adding Transcripts-N.D. of Ohio to Make Them Available

Posted on May 05, 2008
The latest news from PACER is that transcripts will soon be available to the general public that have registered for access. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has issued a Press Release that outlines the...

Sheffield Woman Cannot Keep 90 Cats

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Sheffield Lake City Council has voted not to allow a woman to keep 90 cats in her home. Although the resident claims that she treats her cats as well as she does her children, section 505.20 of the Sheffield...

Ohio Bar Results Are Out

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Ohio Supreme Court has just released the February 2008 bar exam results. Overall, the pass rate was 65.5%, but the rate for first-timers was 83%. The list of all of the successful candidates can be found at the Supreme...

Myers University to Be Sold

Posted on April 30, 2008
Myers University, which graduates paralegals who take jobs in Cleveland and surrounding communities, will soon be purchased by a Connecticut firm that intends to invest $2 million to keep the school alive. As you may remember, Myers' President, Richard Scaldini,...

Cuyahoga County Employee Admits to Stealing from Employment and Family Services

Posted on April 30, 2008
Cuyahoga County can't seek to catch any breaks lately. The latest scandal reported by the news media is that a county employee named Juanita Myrick just pleaded guilty to stealing over $864,000 from the Cuyahoga County Department of Employment and...

Alleged Speeders May Get a Break

Posted on April 30, 2008
Alleged speeders may get a break under a new decision issued by Ohio's 9th District Court of Appeals. On Monday, that Court reversed a $100 ticket issued to a truck driver who was allegedly going 67 in a 55 mph....

Law Library Titles Now Searchable Through State Library of Ohio Website

Posted on April 29, 2008
Thanks to a brand new innovation launched yesterday called WorldCat Local, all of the titles that the Cleveland Law Library owns are now searchable at the State Library of Ohio's website. As the State Library's Press Release indicates, the State...

Employees Sue Columbus-Based Skybus Under WARN Act

Posted on April 21, 2008
Last week, former employees of Skybus, a Columbus-based airline company which recently shut down its operations, sued the company in bankruptcy court, alleging that Skybus violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (aka The WARN Act)...

Ohio Supreme Court Candidates Sign "Clean Campaign Agreement"

Posted on April 21, 2008
All of the candidates running for positions on the Ohio Supreme Court have signed a "Clean Campaign Agreement." The Ohio State Bar Association's Judicial Election Campaign Advertising Monitoring Committee recently announced that Justice Maureen O'Connor, Judge Joseph D...

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