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Judge Snubs FirstEnergy Deal With Call For Depositions

Law 360

An Ohio federal judge has made it clear that he is not willing to play ball with a $180 million settlement of shareholder derivative litigation against FirstEnergy Corp., instead calling on the parties to conduct depositions in his courtroom.

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United States: Ohio Record-Retention Rules: How Can Banks Defend Themselves After Purging Account Records That Are Essential To A Future Lawsuit? - Dinsmore & Shohl

Mondaq

An Ohio customer walks into her local branch and demands access to the contents of her safe deposit box. She presents a key and a one-year lease, capable of annual renewal, from 2005.

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Morning Docket: 06.09.21

Above The Law

Hill ] * The Ohio Attorney General has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare Google a public utility. [ It was hard enough to schedule depositions with them already. [ * The MLB is playing "hard ball" over a lawsuit concerning the location of the League's All-Star Game.

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Drones Eyed as Newest Crime Forensics Tools

The Crime Report

Mark Krekeler, a mineralogist at Miami University in Ohio, and his colleagues realized that special drone-mounted sensors can record wavelength intensity for “the entire electromagnetic spectrum (rather than just the red, green and blue of a typical camera) in each pixel of an image.” . See Also: The Crimefighter Drone.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

see “classic retainer” vs. “advance payment retainer” vs. “security retainer” in Illinois ), but in general, a lawyer is required to deposit flat fees and expenses paid into a client trust account in advance for representation. Some states allow a retainer that is earned upon payment (e.g., See Model Rule 1.15.

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Justice Fines and Fees Violate Constitution: Paper

The Crime Report

Ohio highlighted the relationship between conflicts of interest and due process rights in the context of adjudication. Supreme Court Rulings. The authors said courts had long since underlined the Constitutional threat posed by these practices. As early as 1927, a Supreme Court cases, Tumey v.

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A prisoner’s bid to develop new evidence rests on a 233-year-old statute about judicial writs

SCOTUSBlog

In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio. But Ohio courts upheld Twyford’s conviction and death sentence, rejecting claims that his counsel performed so poorly that Twyford was denied his constitutional rights. Moreover, the ruling could reverberate beyond habeas proceedings.

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