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Update: On December 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Would you say that any criminal act gives rise to civil recovery?” Chief Justice O’Connor, to plaintiff’s counsel.
On April 19, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case…
Update: On June 22, 2017, the parties gave notice that this case has been settled. Combs received $70,000.
On April 19, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Combs v. Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Parks & Recreation, 2016-Ohio-1565. In a splintered 4-3 opinion written by…
Update: Read more about what happened on remand here.
Case Background
In October of 2007, a building in the Village Green Apartments in Beachwood was destroyed by fire. The apartments were owned by Village Green of Beachwood, L.P., and managed by Forest City Residential Management, Inc. (Collectively, Village Green). There had been another fire in…
Update: On December 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On April 19, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Jessica Jacobson v. Ellen Kaforey et al., 2015-1340. The case was accepted on certified conflict…
Update: On October 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On April 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of David Antoon et al. v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation et al., 2015-0467. At issue in the case…
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…
