Overlawyered » Cleveland http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 One way to get around courtroom camera ban http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:16:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26971 Ohio TV station WOIO is re-enacting highlights of a local corruption trial with puppets. More: Lowering the Bar (”I think that all court proceedings should be reported in this way, but would settle for either puppet coverage of arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court or a full reenactment of the Rod Blagojevich trial.”)

Tags: , ,

Related posts

]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/one-way-to-get-around-courtroom-camera-ban/feed/ 5 Ohio: county yanks obese child from family http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:10:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971 200-lb. boy “think the county has overreached in this case by arguing that medical conditions the boy is [...]]]> “An 8-year-old Cleveland Heights boy was taken from his family and placed in foster care last month after county case workers said his mother wasn’t doing enough to control his weight.” Lawyers for the mother of the >200-lb. boy “think the county has overreached in this case by arguing that medical conditions the boy is at risk for — but doesn’t yet have — pose an imminent danger to his health.” The county claims that the mother has ignored doctor’s orders, which she denies. [Rachel Dissell, Cleveland Plain Dealer; see correction on weight in comments]

P.S. As several press accounts note, the issue has been building for a while, notably this summer when Harvard researchers published a piece in JAMA calling for wider removal of obese children from homes.

Tags: , ,

Related posts

]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/feed/ 12 July 28 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-28-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-28-roundup-2/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:45:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24029
  • Wild hypotheticals were grist for complaint: “Widener law professor cleared of harassment charges” [NLJ, earlier here, here, here]
  • Ninth Circuit: Facebook didn’t breach user’s right to accommodation of mental disability [Volokh]
  • House Judiciary hearing on litigation and economic prosperity [Wajert]
  • “University of Michigan to stop worrying about lawsuits, start releasing orphan works” [Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing]
  • PBS airs “The Story Behind Wacky Warning Labels” [Bob Dorigo Jones]
  • Fifth Circuit “candy cane” religion-in-schools case controversial among conservatives [David Upham, NR Bench Memos]
  • Great moments in public records law [Cleveland Plain Dealer, earlier related]
    • Tags: , , , , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-28-roundup-2/feed/ 4     What is a photocopier? http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/what-is-a-photocopier/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/what-is-a-photocopier/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:04:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22163 The question comes up during a deposition, and nearly ten pages of court transcript follow. [Cleveland Plain Dealer] And: Lowering the Bar has some significant background on the case.

    Tags: ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/what-is-a-photocopier/feed/ 32     August 5 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/august-5-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/august-5-roundup/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:00:03 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18723
  • Wouldn’t it be nice if Congress lifted the ban on Internet gambling [Steve Chapman]
  • Design of New Orleans shotgun houses is an adaptation to tax laws [Candy Chang]
  • Lawyer-enriching Costco class action settlement draws an objection from a blogger often linked in this space [Amy Alkon]
  • “Fourth Circuit slaps down N.C. attorney general’s suit against TVA” [Wood/PoL, Jackson]
  • South Carolina jury’s $2.375 million award based on premise that Nissan should have followed European, not U.S. crashworthiness standards [Abnormal Use]
  • City of Cleveland won’t take no for answer in dumb lawsuit against mortgage lenders [Funnell]
  • Charles H. Green at TrustMatters hosts Blawg Review #275;
  • Duke lacrosse fiasco: Nifong’s media and law-school enablers [three years ago at Overlawyered]
    • Tags: , , , , , , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/august-5-roundup/feed/ 0     April 4 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/april-4-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/april-4-roundup-3/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:17:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=16789
  • “Wisconsin law prof has name legally changed to Mitch — just Mitch” [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via Obscure Store]
  • Undue encumbrance? “Developers Trying To Treat Houses Like Copyright; Want A Cut Of Every Future Resale” [Techdirt]
  • It seems the anonymous online comments were made from the judge’s online account [Cleveland Plain Dealer] More: ABA Journal.
  • NLJ reports on surge of patent false marking suits [earlier here, here, here, etc.]
  • Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, often mentioned in this space, will resign to run for Arizona attorney general [KPHO]
  • NY Times last month: those awful meanies who criticize litigation are going to harp on hot chicken sandwich case [WSJ Law Blog] You mean like…?
  • “British Libel Reform: Finally to Be a Reality?” [Citizen Media Law]
  • Trademark case settlement: “North Face, South Butt Agree to Turn Other Cheek” [Baxter, American Lawyer, earlier here and here]
    • Tags: , , , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/april-4-roundup-3/feed/ 4     “Cleveland police no more grasp the 4th Amendment than they do the Rule Against Perpetuities” http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/cleveland-police-no-more-grasp-the-4th-amendment-than-they-do-the-rule-against-perpetuities/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/cleveland-police-no-more-grasp-the-4th-amendment-than-they-do-the-rule-against-perpetuities/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:07:53 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15929 Russ Bensing reports on the Ohio criminal-law scene.

    Tags: , , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/cleveland-police-no-more-grasp-the-4th-amendment-than-they-do-the-rule-against-perpetuities/feed/ 0     Ohio: Turning the table on a serial ADA plaintiff http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/ohio-turning-the-table-on-a-serial-ada-plaintiff/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/ohio-turning-the-table-on-a-serial-ada-plaintiff/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:27:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=13500 Cleveland federal judge Donald Nugent has dismissed a disabled-access lawsuit by Bonnie Kramer against a real estate management company and allowed a counterclaim to go forward against Kramer and her lawyers “alleging abuse of process, fraud, civil conspiracy to commit fraud, spoliation and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations violations”. Kramer, a self-styled “tester”, has been plaintiff in more than 100 actions under the ADA. [Andrew Longstreth, American Lawyer] More on “Disabled Patriots of America” group: Charlie Deitch, Pittsburgh City Paper.

    Tags: , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/ohio-turning-the-table-on-a-serial-ada-plaintiff/feed/ 1     Security guard who slept on job loses lawsuit http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/security-guard-who-slept-on-job-loses-lawsuit/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/security-guard-who-slept-on-job-loses-lawsuit/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 12:13:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=11112 Night-shift security guard Theodore Rongers had argued that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, his hospital employer “had a duty to reasonably accommodate the side effect of his heart medication by permitting him to sleep during his shift”. [Ohio Employer's Law Blog; Rongers v. University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Ct. of Appeals, May 7 (PDF)] I discussed sleeping guards who were more successful in saving their jobs in my book The Excuse Factory (Google Books, limited search), published a decade ago and excerpted at the time in Washington Monthly (see also).

    Tags: , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/security-guard-who-slept-on-job-loses-lawsuit/feed/ 3     “Innovative” city suits against foreclosing lenders http://overlawyered.com/2008/05/innovative-city-suits-against-foreclosing-lenders/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/05/innovative-city-suits-against-foreclosing-lenders/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 02:59:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=6845 City governments, sometimes in league with private counsel working on contingency fee, “have started suing banks and mortgage companies to recoup their costs” on such services as “fire departments, police, code enforcement or even demolition” in blighted neighborhoods. “The lawsuits were filed in recent months under different theories, in state and federal court. Cleveland and Buffalo filed suits under public nuisance laws. Minneapolis’ suit was brought on consumer fraud grounds, while Baltimore took the unusual approach of filing suit in federal court under alleged Fair Housing Act violations.” Bank of New York says it was included in Buffalo’s suit against 39 lenders even though it neither originated nor purchased loans, but merely acted as trustee. (Julie Kay, “Empty Homes Spur Cities’ Suits”, National Law Journal, May 9).

    Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

    Related posts

    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/05/innovative-city-suits-against-foreclosing-lenders/feed/ 1