JURIST
JANUARY 12, 2024
A grand jury declined to return an indictment Thursday against Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman facing an abuse of corpse charge after suffering a miscarriage in her home. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse.
JURIST
DECEMBER 17, 2022
The Ohio Court of Appeals for the First District Friday rejected the state of Ohio’s request to remove an injunction against its anti-abortion law. This case is part of a larger swathe of legal battles happening across the US in the fight for abortion rights following Dobbs. The state immediately appealed the injunction.
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2021
Ohio’s attorney general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare Google a public utility and/or a common carrier under Ohio common law. ” The complaint alleges that Google is the most visited website in Ohio, dominates the search engine market in Ohio, and is offered indiscriminately to the people of Ohio.
JURIST
APRIL 9, 2021
Ohio judge Alison Hatheway granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday which temporarily blocks an Ohio law banning telemedicine abortions. The post Ohio judge temporarily blocks ban on telemedicine abortions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
JURIST
APRIL 16, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. The plaintiffs were four medical service providers and one doctor who provide abortions in Ohio.
JURIST
DECEMBER 11, 2021
The city of Columbus, Ohio, Thursday reported that it had struck an agreement to pay $5.75 The plaintiffs claimed that officers with the Columbus Police Division used excessive force against them and violated their constitutional rights in a lawsuit filed last year in the US District Court in the Southern District of Ohio.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced on Wednesday the grand jury’s decision to indict Adam Coy—former Columbus Police Officer—for the shooting and subsequent death of Andre Hill. The post Ohio grand jury indicts former Columbus officer for murder of Andre Hill appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
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