The Supreme Court of Ohio is accepting public comment on proposed amendments that would update the rules concerning election-related violations by a judicial candidate and complaints that would remove a judge from the bench.

When Judge Betsy Luper Schuster was figuring out what direction to take with her career as a philosophy major, she remembers people telling her, “You can do anything with a law degree.” She has proven it in a variety of positions in the private and public sectors, academia, and now serving on the Supreme Court of Ohio.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a steep decline in economic activity for cities. That decline significantly curtailed municipal revenue, leaving cities to figure out how to keep delivering on essential responsibilities, such as police, fire and social services.

Sufficient evidence was presented to transfer a teenager’s involuntary manslaughter charge to adult court for allegedly shooting his friend while they were fleeing police in a stolen car, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.

Eugenia Adams is active in helping others through the struggles of substance use that took her 20 years to overcome. She was recently in Columbus with nearly 600 people, all of whom share the goal of sobriety with the help of treatment courts.

Former Hamilton County Juvenile Judge Tracie Hunter was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Ohio recently based on her 2014 felony conviction.

Judge Terri Jamison on Wednesday filed her declaration of candidacy for the unexpired term on the Supreme Court of Ohio currently held by Justice Joe Deters. 

A bipartisan majority of the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed an appeal related to the state’s six-week ban on abortion, due to “a change in law.”

The ACLU, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the WilmerHale law firm filed a request to make changes to their lawsuit in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, arguing the Ohio Issue 1 amendment passed by 57 percent of voters should be applied and the state’s six-week abortion ban law should be removed for good.

A state law that requires a recommendation from a prosecutor and law enforcement agency to reduce an arson offender’s registration obligation is constitutional, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.

A unique experience at an eastern Ohio high school allowed students to see and consider a career in the legal profession.

A Cleveland man who assisted his cousin in pursuing legal action against a contractor has been fined $5,000 by the Supreme Court of Ohio recently for the unauthorized practice of law.

A Columbus attorney was suspended recently by the Supreme Court of Ohio for making his client wait nine years to receive a portion of her divorce settlement.

On a Friday night, a Butler County man, joined by his wife and friends, went to a casual restaurant he frequented. He ordered his usual “boneless chicken wings.” He swallowed a sliver of a nearly two-inch chicken bone. It tore his esophagus, which led to internal infections that damaged his heart and lungs.

The Supreme Court of Ohio recently suspended an Akron attorney for two years, with 18 months stayed, for failing to pay the bills of his personal-injury case clients and diverting some of their settlement funds for his own personal use.