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Ohio Supreme Court
ELECTIONS, CIVIL PROCEDURE - (Per curiam.) Relators sought to prevent Ohio's secretary of state from requiring boards of elections to provide optical scan ballots to voters who request them. The court held that relators are not entitled to the requested extraordinary relief in prohibition, because such writs apply only to the exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial power, and the secretary has exercised neither in issuing the ballot directive. Writ denied. D.C. Circuit
EXPERTS - A plaintiff claimed Prudential Insurance withdrew its job offer based on the false information contained in a criminal background check performed by CARCO. He then sued CARCO for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The D.C. Circuit reversed summary judgment for the company, because plaintiffs are not always required to present expert testimony to establish negligence under the Act. Calif. Courts Of Appeal
NEGLIGENCE - A 2-year-old drowned in the backyard pool of the homeowners when his parent left him unattended for about five minutes. On first impression, the appeals court found that the homeowners breached no duty of supervision, and the parent could not establish that the absence of a self-latching closing mechanism on the gate at one of the entrances to the pool area was a cause of the accident. |