On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard the case of Freshwater v. Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education, which involved the firing of an eighth grade public school science teacher, allegedly for teaching creationism in science class and for insubordination, which raises fascinating issues about both the Free Exercise
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Guest Oral Argument Preview. Proper Service of a Civil Protection Order. State v. Robert L. Smith, Jr.
By Marianna Bettman on
Update: On April 30, 2013 the Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis by Prof. Mickles here.
On January 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State v. Robert Smith, Jr., 2012-Ohio-0239. This oral argument guest preview post is written by Kenyatta Mickles, my colleague…
Guest Oral Argument Preview. Proper Service of a Civil Protection Order. State v. Robert L. Smith, Jr.
By Marianna Bettman on
Update: On April 30, 2013 the Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis by Prof. Mickles here.
On January 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State v. Robert Smith, Jr., 2012-Ohio-0239. This oral argument guest preview post is written by Kenyatta Mickles, my colleague…
Guest Post: Ongoing Issues With Sex Offender Registration.
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Guest Posts, Ohio Supreme Court Watch
When Ohio repealed its version of Megan’s Law and enacted its Adam Walsh Act, many thorny questions arose about which registration requirements applied in a variety of circumstances. On August 22, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio will try and sort out some of these issues. To help understand these cases and put them in…
Guest Post on Ohio’s Corporate Advancement Statute.
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Guest Posts, Ohio Supreme Court Watch
My colleague at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Sean Mangan, has written this guest post on Ohio’s corporate advancement statute, and the Ohio Supreme Court’s recent decision in Miller v. Miller. Read the blog’s analysis of the Miller case here. Sean’s focus at the U.C. College of Law is the practice…
Guest Post: Emerging Trends: High Courts Examine the Issue of Youth Prosecuted as Adults
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Commentary, Guest Posts
In light of the important juvenile law issues the Supreme Court of Ohio has been tackling, most recently whether an amenability hearing can be waived, the blog welcomes this guest post by Erin Davies. Erin is the Public Policy Attorney at the Children’s Law Center, where her work focuses on Ohio youth under the age…
Guest Post: Recent Ohio Supreme Court Case May Create Opportunity to File Takings Lawsuit in Federal Court.
By Marianna Bettman on
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
Attorneys who practice…
Guest Post on Ohio’s Serious Youthful Offender Law
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Commentary, Guest Posts
Judging from the comments at oral argument in the case of In Re J.V., (read that post here) and from the analysis of the Serious Youthful Offender law in the case of State v. D.H., 120 Ohio St.3d 540, 2009-Ohio-9, this law, which allows for blended (i.e., part juvenile disposition, part a potential adult…
Guest Post on Regulatory Takings
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Guest Posts, Ohio Supreme Court Watch
Jim McCarthy, a lawyer with Katz Teller Brant & Hild, litigates frequently in the area of eminent domain. I have worked with him as an appellate consultant. His post follows on Legally Speaking’s preview of Clifton v. Village of Blanchester and Moore et al. v. City of Middletown, which will be argued in the…
Guest Post on Battered-Woman Syndrome
By Marianna Bettman on
Posted in Guest Posts, Ohio Supreme Court Watch
On June 14 I posted my column on the Ohio Supreme Court decision in State v. Goff, in which the Court was faced with the issue of whether a woman who had murdered her husband and raised the battered-woman syndrome as a defense could be compelled to submit to a psychiatric examination by the…