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Kenyatta Mickles, my colleague at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and Director of our Domestic Violence Civil Protection Order Clinic, has authored this guest post on the recent Supreme Court of Ohio decision in State v. Anderson.
Guest Post
Will State v. Anderson Affect Victims Who Want to Obtain a Civil Protection …
Update: On July 23, 2015, the court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.
“Isn’t this a textbook example of a lawyer for the Bureau just dropping the ball– making a mistake– and now you are in the Supreme Court asking us to fix it?” Justice Pfeifer to the Deputy Solicitor.
On June 23, 2015, the…
Update: a bill has been introduced in the legislature to allow peace officers in small townships to make arrests on interstate highways. Read more about that here.
On June 23, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in State v. Brown, 2015-Ohio-2438. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice O’Donnell,…
Update: on August 18, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Steve Granger, et al. v. Auto-Owners Insurance, et al., 2013-1527 was argued June 25, 2014, and still no decision. The issue in the case is an insurer’s duty to defend in a housing…
Update: on August 18, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Steve Granger, et al. v. Auto-Owners Insurance, et al., 2013-1527 was argued June 25, 2014, and still no decision. The issue in the case is an insurer’s duty to defend in a housing…
Update: On November 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“The access to justice that we are concerned about, what is the problem with requiring the court when there is a noncitizen and there is a situation like this, for the court to…
This In Sharper Focus Guest Post by Cleveland attorney Harlan D. Karp is a verbatim reproduction of part of the amicus brief of Concerned Ohio Immigration Attorneys authored by Karp with the help of Cleveland practitioners Tina Haddad and Tanya Linetsky, filed in State v. Kona in support of Kona. This provides a superb overview…
My two senior student contributors, Rebecca Campbell and Cameron Downer, have now graduated, and are studying for the bar exam. I want to thank them both for the outstanding work they have done on the blog these past few years, and wish them well in their legal careers. Joining my rising 3L student contributors, Michael…
On June 18, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in Ohio v. Clark. In a unanimous decision written by Justice Alito, in which Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Ginsburg, concurred in judgment only, and Justice Thomas wrote a solo separate concurrence in judgment only, the Court held that the admission of…
Read the complete analysis of the merit decision here.
In a 9-0 decision released today, in Ohio v. Clark, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the admission of a young child’s out-of-court statements to his teachers identifying the defendant as his abuser did not violate the Confrontation Clause, even though the child did not testify…
