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Ohio grand jury declines to charge woman with abuse of corpse after at-home miscarriage

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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.

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Bluebook Citation for Ohio Statutes

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You will find citation information for Ohio statutes in Table 1 of the Bluebook. jurisdictions; for more in-depth treatment of statute citations in general, have a look at Bluebook Rule 12. Here’s an example of how to cite to Ohio’s illegal bingo statute: Ohio Rev. This table covers all U.S.

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Ohio Supreme Court rules judges not required to defer to state agency interpretations of ambiguous laws

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The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Ohio courts do not have to defer to a state agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law. The Ohio Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors declined to authorize TWISM Enterprises, L.L.C. The court held that Ohio law precludes mandatory deference.

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Federal appeals court upholds Ohio Down syndrome abortion law

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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.

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Panel Holds that Ohio Aggravated Burglary Statute Does Not Count as Predicate Violent Felony under ACCA. 

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The Court held that an Ohio aggravated-robbery offense, R.C. In other words, the statute does not say what state of mind the defendant must possess in displaying, brandishing, indicating possession of, or using a deadly weapon. 2d 1038 (Ohio 2009), which held that the deadly-weapon element in R.C. 2d 26, 34 (Ohio 2010)).

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

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This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., orders) that aid the exercise of their jurisdiction even though no statute expressly authorizes the orders. In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio.

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Ohio Attorney General Files Securities Class Action Against Against Facebook

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The lawsuit alleges that Facebook--now known as Meta--violates securities statutes by allegedly misleading investors about the negative mental health effects of its product.