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Earlier this month, I received an email from one of my blog readers about George Floyd. I responded and am posting both emails here.
First, the email from the reader:
The trouble in Minneapolis? How about a sober and sane look at what happened. First a violent cop with a history of complaints regarding undue force and even his part-time employer echoing those comments. ...
Guest: attorney Jon Saia of Saia & Piatt
Jon Saia’s practice is focused on OVI defense. He’s one of the most knowledgeable attorneys in Ohio on the law. Not only an accomplished attorney, Jon is certified by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as an instructor in the administration of standardized field sobriety tests. ...
The directives from the Ohio Department of Public Health concerning how we are to deal with the coronavirus have brought many revelations. Until the virus hit, I didn’t realize how many constitutional law scholars we have, nor was I aware how creative people can be when objecting to the guidelines.
Take, for instance, the owner of The National Road Diner near Cambridge, Ohio. She refuses to close because, “it’s my constitutional right to open my business now.” Apparently, constitutional law ...
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For years, DuPont had been dumping in a landfill in Parkersburg, West Va., a man-made chemical commonly known as PFOA, which was recently linked to cancers and other diseases. But DuPont knew as far back as 1951 that PFOAs posed a health risk, and as time went on, DuPont learned more and ...
Duane Casares wants to restore Kimberly Parkway, a neighborhood on the southeast side of Columbus that surrounds the old Eastland Mall. “Kimberly has a terrible infant mortality problem and a high eviction rate. Many of its residents live at the federal poverty level ($26,200 for a family of four), are there are no youth-oriented services—libraries, recreation centers, YMCAs or Boys & Girls Clubs—anywhere.”
Casares and the non-profit agency he heads, Direction for Youth and Families, work to strengthen families and ...
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If you have 13 children by nine women and fall behind on your child support payments, can a court order you to not have more children? A trial court in Lorain County, Ohio, thought it had the power to do so, and the appellate court agreed. Now it’s up to the Ohio Supreme Court to decide the issue. Listen to a discussion with the attorney who is handling the case. ...
In failing to react quickly to the coronavirus, Donald Trump’s blunder rivals that of General Maurice Gamelin, commander of the French Army at the start of World War Two.
Shortly before Germany invaded France, Gamelin received intelligence reports the Germans were headed toward the Ardennes forest. Convinced the Ardennes could not be penetrated, Gamelin disregarded what he was told. The Germans burst through the Ardennes and took Paris five weeks later.
Like Gamelin, Trump didn’t see ...
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How does the Ohio Supreme Court decide which cases to take and who writes the opinion? Does a justice’s political background have any effect on decision-making? What does Justice Donnelly have to say about judicial elections and the Death Penalty?
Listen to the discussion on Lawyer Up!
Continue Reading →You can determine the opportunities a Franklin County child will likely
have by his neighborhood. Social determinants like health, education and
incarceration rates are indicators for success and portend a bleak future for
many neighborhoods. What’s to be done? First, let’s look at the numbers.
If you live in Upper Arlington, your life expectancy is 82 to 84 years, according to the Kirwin Institute at The Ohio State University. For someone in southern Franklinton, it’s 64 to 71 years, and ...
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One of President Trump’s defenses to his impeachment is that he withheld aid from Ukraine because of his concern for corruption in the country. But there’s a significant fact he doesn’t mention.
According to Trump, then-Vice President Joe Biden told Ukraine’s president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless Ukraine’s prosecutor general Victor Shokin was fired. According to Trump, Shokin was investigating Burisma, where Bidens’ son, Hunter, sat on the ...
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