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Update: On July 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On March 5, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of New Riegel Local School District Board of Education…
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…
Update: read what happened on remand here.
“We hold that under the plain language of R.C. 2315.18(A)(7), defamation is a ‘civil action for damages for injury or loss to person.’”
Justice Fischer, majority opinion
“Defamation is an injury or loss to reputation, not to person, and therefore the caps on damages in R.C. 2315.18 do…
“Schmitz’s experience of disorientation as to time and place following head impacts establishes that he was, or at least should have been, aware that he had sustained head injuries. But head injuries, including concussions, are an inherent part of football…They do not inherently suggest the existence of actionable wrongdoing.”
Justice French, majority opinion
On October…
Update: On December 7, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On August 1, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case Ann Wayt v. DHSC, LLC, 2017-1548. At issue is whether R.C. 2315.18 caps non-economic compensatory damages…
On August 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a…
Update: On August 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“What was it that the trust did that aided the seller in making the sale?”
Justice O’Donnell, to counsel for the Investors
On May 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral…
Update: On August 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read an analysis of the argument here.
On May 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Cynthia Boyd; Thomas Flanders v. Kingdom Trust Co., PENSCO…
