The Supreme Court declined Thursday to disturb signature rules for Ohio ballot initiatives, dealing a blow to marijuana advocates who say the pandemic has made such rules unworkable.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit denied habeas relief to a death row inmate finding that a second execution attempt would not constitute a cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Ohio first tried to execute Romell Broom by lethal injection in 2009 but could not maintain a viable IV connection to his veins.
Read moreFutbol Club Cincinnati’s soon-to-be completed soccer stadium has not hosted a game yet, but the battle over the stadium’s naming rights has spilled into the courts as the soccer club and its former consulting firm filed competing lawsuits on Monday.
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A 2015 Environmental Protection Agency rule that expanded the definition of the waters of the United States was debated Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, as Ohio and Tennessee argued the since-repealed rule was unconstitutional and could still be put back into effect.
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The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether the school records of the deceased Dayton gunman who killed nine people last year should be made available to the public and press.
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The Ohio Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with the question of whether a city can be considered a victim of a crime under state law and whether it is entitled to restitution for crimes.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to disturb an order compelling the Bureau of Prisons to transfer vulnerable
Read moreA former director of an Ohio memory-loss clinic accused by dozens of patients of falsely diagnosing them with Alzheimer’s disease has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the release of 11 immigrant detainees Thursday after finding that their imprisonment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an Ohio county jail was preventing them from recovering from Covid-19.
Read moreA divided Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a controversial education reform law that allows the state to appoint CEOs for failing school districts, even as the practice has been halted because of a lack of improvement.
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Amazon argued before the Ohio Supreme Court that it is not at fault for a high school student’s death caused by a third-party product.
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Perhaps the strangest election in Ohio’s 217-year history concluded Tuesday night, as counties across the state submitted the results of a primary conducted almost entirely by mail-in ballots.
Read moreIn line with similar rulings from other federal judges, Ohio doctors can continue providing abortions through the Covid-19 pandemic, following an injunction issued by that state’s federal court Thursday.
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A massive coronavirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 4,000 inmates in Ohio has highlighted the dangers lurking in the nation’s correctional facilities during the pandemic and what systemwide testing reveals about the scope of infections behind prison walls.
Read moreOhio cannot enforce its ban on abortion among nonessential medical procedures, which it billed as a way to preserve personal protective equipment for Covid-19 responders. The Sixth Circuit ruled that the temporary restraining order on the ban is not likely to “inflict irretrievable harms.”
Read moreThe League of Women Voters of Ohio sued Secretary of State Frank LaRose, claiming the state’s Ohio’s emergency actions to eliminate in-person voting violates the National Voter Registration Act.
Read moreFederal judges in Alabama and Ohio blocked coronavirus-related orders banning nonessential medical procedures from restricting abortion access. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson found that such an order is likely to “fully prevent women from exercising their righ to obtain an abortion,” given Alabama’s time limits on when women can undergo the procedure.
Read moreRu-El Sailor sued Ohio in Cuyahoga County Court, two days after he was released from prison after doing 15 years for a murder he did not commit.
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