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In 2014, a diamond bracelet, an emerald ring and a brooch were stolen from the Dayton-area residence of Irene Danopulos. American Trading II, a pawnshop in Cheviot Ohio, bought these items for $2125, reported the purchase to the Sheriff’s office, held the jewelry for the statutorily required 15-day period, then sold the pieces as scrap…

Further update: after the case was reversed and remanded, the trial court again granted summary judgment to WBNS on the Andersons’ defamation claim, and on March 29, 2021, the Tenth District Court of Appeals again reversed, finding an issue of fact as to whether WBNS acted negligently in ascertaining the defamatory potential of its…

A Stark County jury awarded Ann Wayt $800,000 in compensatory damages and $750,000 in punitive damages in a defamation action she brought against Affinity Medical Center, where she had worked as a nurse. The case got to the Supreme Court of Ohio on the issue of whether the damages cap in R.C. 2315.18 (B)(2) that…

Case Background

Demetrius Jackson was arrested for raping 14-year-old C.H. While Jackson was in the county jail, he was interviewed by a Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services social worker, who did not give Jackson the Miranda warnings. Jackson told the social worker that he had had consensual oral sex with C.H., and…

When Brandon Moore was 15, he and two other young men went on what now-retired Justice Paul Pfeifer described as “a criminal rampage of escalating depravity.” Moore’s case was transferred to adult court. The rape victim in the case testified that “[T]hey killed a part of me. They killed a part of my [soul] that…

Joshua Polk, then a student at Whetstone High in Columbus, left his book bag on the school bus. An initial search of the bag pursuant to an unwritten school policy didn’t turn up anything but papers identifying Polk as the owner of the bag, but a later, more thorough search in the principal’s office turned…

Case Background

A long, long time ago (January 19, 2010, to be exact) Donald Yeaples was injured while working as a laborer for Precision Directional Boring, a Medina County Company. He was on a job to identify residential connections with storm, sanitary and water pipes in order to bore a path for a new water…

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Seth Cromer died at the age of five while a patient at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron. Seth’s parents brought him to the emergency room of the hospital on the evening of January 13, 2007 with an ear infection that worsened into a secondary infection.  He died the next day in…

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On New Year’s Eve 2004, 23-year-old J.P. came from Ravenna to celebrate with friends at a club in Cleveland.  She drank a lot of alcohol throughout the night, and woke up the next morning in an unfamiliar apartment wearing unfamiliar clothes, and no underwear. There she encountered two people she did not know–Iran…

In Burnham v. Cleveland Clinic, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8000, in a very fragmented 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that the order compelling discovery in this case was final and appealable. Read the analysis of the merit decision here.

Case Background

What was this fight all about? The incident report from a slip…