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Further Update: On May 25, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted reconsideration in this case, and reversed it. Read the analysis of the new merit decision here.
Update: On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the…
Douglas Prade, a former Akron Police Captain, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the alleged murder of his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade, who was shot and killed in her van outside of work in 1997.
Prade was primarily convicted on the basis of a bite mark that was made through Dr. Prade’s…
On March 25, 2016, I erroneously posted that the case of A.S. (a Minor) v. Stephanie Watts, et al, 2014-0727 had been pending for over one year, when in fact it had been dismissed as improvidently accepted on April 23, 2015, by a vote of 5-2.
My apologies to the Court and to my readers…
Update: On October 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here.
On April 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of David Antoon et al. v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation…
On March 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Griffith v. Aultman Hosp, 2016-Ohio-1138. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the court held that a patient’s medical record is not limited to data in the medical-records department, but rather includes all data the health care provider…
On March 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Griffith v. Aultman Hosp, 2016-Ohio-1138. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the court held that a patient’s medical record is not limited to data in the medical-records department, but rather includes all data the health care provider…
On March 16, 2016 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Broom, 2016-Ohio-1028. In a 4-3 opinion written by Justice Lanzinger, the court held that a second attempt to execute Romell Broom, after the first attempt at lethal injection failed, was neither cruel and usual punishment nor a…
On March 16, 2016 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Broom, 2016-Ohio-1028. In a 4-3 opinion written by Justice Lanzinger, the court held that a second attempt to execute Romell Broom, after the first attempt at lethal injection failed, was neither cruel and usual punishment nor a…
Update: A stipulation of dismissal was filed by plaintiff’s counsel on March 15, 2017. The case was settled without any further hearing in the trial court.
On March 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Whetstone v. Binner, 2016-Ohio-1006. In a 4-3 opinion written by Chief Justice…
On June 23, 2015, in State v. Brown, 2015-Ohio-2438, the Supreme Court of Ohio, by a vote of 5-2, held that a traffic stop for a minor misdemeanor outside the officer’s statutory jurisdiction or authority violates Article I, Section 14 of the Ohio Constitution. A Lake Township police officer had pulled onto I-280…
