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Workers’ Compensation Retaliation: Ohio Recognizes Exception To The 90 Day Notice Requirement
Under Ohio Revised Code §4123.90, a former employee must provide written notice of a potential workers’ compensation retaliation claim against his former employer within 90 days of the discharge. However,…
Ohio Appellate Insights
In Sharper Focus: The Courts Shall be Open.
In the recently-argued case of Rayess v. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, 2011-1933 the Ohio Supreme Court permitted most of the documents in the case to be filed under…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit Rules that Provision of Medicaid Services Is No Bar to Campaign Contributions in Ohio
With the coming political season soon upon us, the Sixth Circuit has struck down an Ohio statute that criminalized the acceptance by state Attorney-General or county-prosecutor candidates of campaign contributions…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: It’s Baaaack–The Employer Intentional Tort. Houdek et al. v. ThyssenKrupp Materials, N.A.
Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. Read the analysis of the oral argument of this case here.…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Governmental Immunity for Maintaining Municipal Pool: Michael L. Hawsman v. City of Cuyahoga Falls
Update: On November 20, 2012, the Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. Read the analysis of the oral argument here. On June 19,…
Drug & Device Law
Is There A Constitutional Right To Punitive Damages?
By Bexis
We recently came across a post on a Bricker & Eckler blog, about a slightly less recent Ohio Supreme Court case, Havel v. Villa St. Joseph, 963 N.E.2d 1270 (Ohio…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Merit Decision: Employer Intentional Torts and Sovereign Immunity. Sampson v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.
On February 16 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio decided the case of Sampson v. Cuyahoga Metr. Hous. Auth., 2012-Ohio-570. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Cupp, the Court…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Sixth Circuit finds no constitutional problems with Ohio’s judicialBlakelyfix
Main December 23, 2011Sixth Circuit finds no constitutional problems with Ohio's judicial Blakely fixA helpful reader alterted me to a new Sixth Circuit ruling today in Ruhlman v. Brunsman, 09-4528…
Ohio Appellate Insights
In Sharper Focus: Understanding the Constitutional Challenges to Ohio’s Serious Youthful Offender Statute
Update: Read an analysis of the merit decision in the J.V. case here. Ohio’s Serious Youthful Offender statute works like this. The statute allows for a “blended” sentence, which is…
Employer Law Report
Bill Limiting Immigrant Workers’ Compensation Benefits
On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, Senator Bill Seitz introduced Senate Bill 238 to the Ohio General Assembly. If passed, this bill would amend Ohio’s Revised Code to prohibit illegal and unauthorized…