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Cincinnati attorney Matthew Fellerhoff, who recently joined the law firm of Strauss and Troy, has authored this guest post on possible ramifications of the recent decision in Clifton v. Blanchester, slip opinion No. 2012-Ohio-780. Read the analysis of the merits decision in the Clifton case here.
Here’s Matt’s guest post
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While our politics differ, I share a legal passion with Judge Jeff Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit—the underappreciated subject of state constitutional law. This was Judge Sutton’s topic at a lecture he gave at the Supreme Court of Ohio April 4 as part of the Forum on the Law…
While our politics differ, I share a legal passion with Judge Jeff Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit—the underappreciated subject of state constitutional law. This was Judge Sutton’s topic at a lecture he gave at the Supreme Court of Ohio April 4 as part of the Forum on the Law…
Back in the day, before Feb 1, 2007 when the Supreme Court of Ohio adopted the Model Rules-based Rules of Professional Conduct, Ohio had a Code of Professional Responsibility, made up of canons, disciplinary rules, and ethical considerations. DR7-101 was titled “zealous representation of a client.” All of us of a certain age, or a…
Further Update: This rule went into effect July 1, 2012.
Update: Here is the rule that actually got sent to the General Assembly. It’s a compromise, but I think it has a number of plusses. Thanks to Kim Brooks Tandy of the Children’s Law Center for sending this over.
RULE 3. Waiver of Rights
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Update: The suspense (if there ever really was any) is over. On February 21, Secretary Husted broke the tie by siding with the Republicans to allow the appeal of Judge Dlott’s decision to count addtional provisional ballots in the Hamilton County Juvenile Court election.
Read what the Secretary had to say here. The appeal was…
It is now mid February, 2012, and the November 2010 Juvenile Court race in Hamilton county is still undecided. On February 8 Judge Susan Dlott ruled that nearly 300 provisional ballots cast at the right polling place but wrong precinct because of poll worker error had to be counted, just as the 27 plus ballots…
The November 10 2010 Juvenile Court election has remained in jurisprudential limbo, with John Williams last ahead by 23 votes. (He has since become the Juvenile Court’s administrative judge, appointed to the seat due to the unexpected retirement of the incumbent, Judge Karla Grady). Challenger Tracie Hunter filed a lawsuit in federal court asserting an…
The November 10 2010 Juvenile Court election has remained in jurisprudential limbo, with John Williams last ahead by 23 votes. (He has since become the Juvenile Court’s administrative judge, appointed to the seat due to the unexpected retirement of the incumbent, Judge Karla Grady). Challenger Tracie Hunter filed a lawsuit in federal court asserting an…
The U.S. Supreme Court has made a quick decision on the constitutionality of law enforcement placing a GPS tracking device on the undercarriage of a suspect’s car without a warrant. The case, U.S. v. Jones, just argued in November, was decided January 23. All nine justices agreed this was unconstitutional. But they split…
