In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews, 2022-Ohio-3990, the Ohio Supreme Court held that (1) a governmental risk-sharing pool providing legal services to a public body may be subject to public record requests and (2) a court is required to conduct an in camera review of law […]
In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews, 2023-Ohio-263, an appellate court individually and privately scrutinized legal invoices submitted by a law firm to a governmental risk-sharing pool representing a public body — as directed by the Ohio Supreme Court — and determined that the narrative portions of […]
In the case of Williams v. Shawnee Twp., 2023-Ohio-252, an appellate court held that — to the extent an insurance company actually had a duty to explain the perils of declining uninsured-motorist coverage to a driver — there was no evidence, in this case, that the insurance company breached any such duty to the driver […]
In the case of Williams v. Shawnee Twp., 2023-Ohio-251, an appellate court held that a police officer did not act in a wanton or reckless manner when the police offer exercised care and followed department guidelines during a high-speed chase that caused an accident with the citizen’s car, and, therefore, neither the town’s statutory immunity […]
In the case of In re J.M.P., 2023-Ohio-225, the appellate court enforced a shared parenting plan declaring the mother to be the residential parent for school enrollment purposes and ordering the father to pay a portion of such enrollment. In this case, the mother argued that the shared parenting plan (1) vested the mother with […]
In the case of Mason v. Bloom-Carroll Loc. Sch. Dist., et al., S.D. Ohio No. 2:22-cv-3668 (Jan. 26, 2023), a federal district court held that a party is permitted to request a stay before filing responsive pleading and that a stay is appropriate when there is a significant overlap between a criminal case and a […]