http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-05-19T20:35:27-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former_legal_chief_gets_90_days_for_fujitec_expense_fraud/ A former chief legal and administrative officer for the U.S. arm of an international Japan-based elevator manufacturing company has been sentenced to 90 days for stealing $150,000 from his then-employer for faking legal matters. Darren Courtney reached a plea deal with prosecutors in March, but he has since been threatened… Criminal Justice, Sentencing/Post Conviction, White Collar Crime, In-house Counsel, States, Ohio Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:04 -0500 44198.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/homeowner_faces_kidnap_rape_charges_after_3_women_missing_for_years_were/ Updated: The owner of a Cleveland home where authorities say they found three women missing for a decade alive earlier this week has been charged with kidnapping and rape, and is being held with an $8 million bond, according to Reuters. Ariel Castro, 52, was charged with three… Criminal Justice, States, Ohio Wed, 08 May 2013 17:12:35 -0500 44098.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/police_find_longtime_missing_women_after_frantic_911_call_case_had_former_f/ Updated: Police have arrested three brothers after receiving a frantic 911 call from a woman who told police she had escaped from a home in Cleveland after being kidnapped 10 years ago. Three women—Amanda Berry, 27; Gina DeJesus, 23; and Michelle Knight, 32—were found on Monday… Criminal Justice, States, Ohio Tue, 07 May 2013 07:13:29 -0500 44061.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_faces_discipline_case_for_dismissing_lawyers_speeding_ticket/ Disciplinary counsel for the Ohio Supreme Court is seeking to sanction a Franklin County Municipal Court judge for dismissing a lawyer's speeding ticket. Attorney Patrick M. Quinn had been ticketed in November 2011 for doing 81 mph in a 65-mph zone. Judge Harland H. Hale, who was being represented by… Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, Government Law, Judiciary, Legal Ethics, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, States, Ohio Fri, 03 May 2013 13:39:54 -0500 44030.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/victim_blinked_his_eyes_to_id_defendant_police_say_videotape_to_be_shown_to/ Shot in the head and neck on Oct. 28, 2010, David Chandler was initially paralyzed and then, about two weeks later, he died. But meanwhile, hooked up to a ventilator and unable to speak, he identified, by blinking three times, the man who prosecutors say shot him. A videotape of… Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, States, Ohio Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:37:01 -0500 43959.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/attorney_withdraws_from_murder_defense_after_being_charged_with_fondling/ Criminally charged with felony gross sexual imposition after prosecutors say he exposed himself and fondled the breasts of a client's mother at his law office during an April 4 meeting, an Ohio attorney has now withdrawn from the murder defense of the… Criminal Justice, Legal Ethics, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:35:35 -0500 43744.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_is_charged_in_alleged_office_groping_incident_cops_taped_dinner_date/ A prominent criminal defense lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, has been accused of exposing himself and fondling a client’s mother during a meeting in his office. Lawyer Javier Armengau is free on bond on a charge of felony gross sexual imposition, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Armengau… Criminal Justice, Legal Ethics, States, Ohio Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:31:03 -0500 43704.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/let_cameras_in_ohio_chief_justice_tells_scotus/ What did the public take from recent U.S. Supreme Court arguments regarding same-sex marriage? Images of people standing around outside–and that’s exactly why the justices should allow cameras in the courtroom, according to Maureen O’Connor, chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. An opinion piece detailing… Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court, States, Ohio Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:43:51 -0500 43630.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_ordered_to_pay_68k_for_concealing_termite_damage_in_home_prior_to_sa/ When Sarah Seitz first saw her dream home, it contained only a couch in the living room, a spare tile in one bedroom closet and some window coverings on the floor of another bedroom closet. All, it turned out, concealed termite damage in the home that attorney Anne C. Harvey… Consumer Law, Real Estate & Property Law, Tort Law, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, States, Ohio Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:43:56 -0500 43503.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/joseph_kelner_attorney_who_sued_sitting_ohio_governor_over_kent_state_slayi/ Joseph Kelner, a personal injury attorney best known for the litigation battle he fought, and arguably won, over an iconic Vietnam War protest at Kent State University, has died. He was 98 years old. A former president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the American Trial Lawyers… Careers, Obituaries, Legal History, Trials & Litigation, 6th Circuit Court, States, New York, Ohio Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:55:36 -0600 43179.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/sued_by_bank_lawyer_says_he_was_also_victimized_by_overseas_clients_297k_ch/ An Ohio lawyer is now embroiled in litigation after apparently being victimized in an overseas check scam perpetrated by a purported client. F. Stephen Chamberlain says he deposited a $297,500 cashier's check into his Union Bank trust account and, after being assured by a JPMorgan Chase Bank representative that the… Banking Law, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, International Law, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:58:02 -0600 43031.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/clients_murder_trial_is_delayed_by_lawyers_indictment/ Convicted of murder earlier this month and sentenced to 18 years to life, Lamar Simmons, 35, was facing a second murder trial on Monday in an unrelated Ohio case. But it had to be delayed after Simmons' defense lawyer, Greg Cohen, was indicted. The attorney is accused of trying to… Criminal Justice, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:58:08 -0600 43029.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lummus/ A man who punched his own lawyer in the face last week when the attorney argued against the client's desire to fire him has been acquitted on an an attempted murder count even though he subsequently appeared in front of… Criminal Justice, Sentencing/Post Conviction, Judiciary, Court Security, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, States, Ohio Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:30:20 -0600 42741.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/client_attacks_lawyer_tries_to_flee_continues_trial_in_restraints/ When 20-year-old Dionte Lummus told an Ohio judge Monday that he wanted to fire the lawyer who is defending him in an attempted-murder trial, attorney Will Oswall said it wouldn't be fair to his client to lose his counsel midtrial. At that point, Lummus threw a punch toward Oswall's face… Criminal Justice, Judiciary, Court Security, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:43:13 -0600 42700.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/race_rater_evidence_blocked_in_eeoc_suit_against_kaplan_over_credit_checks_/ Kaplan Higher Education Corp. has won dismissal of a lawsuit that alleged its hiring credit checks discriminated against black job applicants. U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan of Cleveland granted summary judgment for the company on Monday after blocking an EEOC expert witness, the New York Times… Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment, Trials & Litigation, Evidence, States, Ohio Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:04:49 -0600 42612.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/woman_attacked_after_judge_leaves_her_in_courtroom_with_her_ex/ All was apparently well until a magistrate judge reportedly left an Ohio domestic violence courtroom during a Friday hearing last week to see if the respondent had any pending arrest warrants. Almost immediately after the judge left and another woman entered the courtroom, a security video for… Family Law, Judiciary, Court Security, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:30:21 -0600 42606.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/teacher_with_child_phobia_sues_school_for_disability_discrimination_says_sh/ A high school French teacher in Ohio has sued her district, contending that her reassignment to a school that has elementary students constituted disability discrimination because she has a phobic fear of young children. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, had taught for decades in the Mariemont School District, which allegedly accommodated… Disability Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment, Trials & Litigation, 6th Circuit Court, States, Ohio Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:06:18 -0600 42378.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ohio_gov_avoids_obesity_execution_issue_re_450-pound_inmate_grants_clemency/ Sidestepping the issue of whether Ronald Post, at approximately 450 pounds, is too overweight to be humanely executed, Ohio's chief executive has granted him clemency on another basis. Gov. John Kasich on Monday commuted Post's death sentence to life without the possibility of parole, saying that this was appropriate, regardless… Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Sentencing/Post Conviction, States, Ohio Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:55:27 -0600 42080.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ohios_calfee_seeks_more_partners_in_cincinnati/ Ohio's Calfee Halter & Griswold has posted the Help Wanted sign for partners in Cincinnati. The 160-attorney firm launched a new office there earlier this year, which now has four lawyers. However, it hopes to grow the attorney roster there to 30 within the foreseeable future,… Business of Law, Law Firms, Midsize Firm, Partners, States, Ohio Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:45:07 -0600 41984.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ohio_lawyer_sues_mugshot_websites_claims_right-of-publicity_violation/ An Ohio lawyer has filed a lawsuit that claims five websites that publish mugshots are violating state law. The websites will remove mugshots if individuals pay a fee, and that is the problem, according to Toledo lawyer Scott Ciolek. He says the websites are violating a right-of-publicity law that generally… Internet Law, Privacy Law, Trials & Litigation, States, Ohio Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:00:37 -0600 41910.abajournal.com