Hamilton County Law Library

The Hamilton County Law Library is happy to announce the launch of our new website!  Beginning this week, all blog posts will now be posted exclusively to the blog page on the new site. Plea...

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U.S. District Judge Arthur Spiegel died on Wednesday at the age of 94. Spiegel had served on the court since 1980 when he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter. He presided over such high profi...

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In honor of New Year's Eve and in order to reflect on events of this past year we offer you a round-up of top legal news lists from various sources on the web. Happy New Year, everyone! Westlaw L...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/top-legal-news-of-2014.html

Traffic cameras have had a contentious time recently in Ohio, and the after-effects of court hearings and legislation about their use may continue into the new year. According to the Columbus Dis...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/ohio-traffic-cameras-still-making.html

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last Tuesday that an Ohio law provides protection from employment retaliation for employees who report suspicions of abuse and neglect of residents of long term care ...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/employees-who-report-abuseneglect-are.html

For your holiday reading pleasure, we offer you the classic poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," lawyer-style.  Recently posted by the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, "The Night Before Christmas...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/happy-holidays-from-law-library.html

Just before adjourning for the year, the Ohio legislature passed a bipartisan measure to govern redistricting of Ohio's legislative districts. House Joint Resolution 12, which was passed with onl...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/ohio-redistricting-resolution-headed-to.html

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a federal law yesterday that prohibits a person who has been committed to a mental institution from owning a gu...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/sixth-circuit-strikes-down-ban-on-gun.html

The Supreme Court of Ohio issued an opinion today that upholds Toledo's system of penalties for traffic violations caught by the city's red light traffic cameras. According to the opinion, in 200...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/toledo-can-continue-using-red-light.html

WCPO reports today that a settlement agreement has been reached in the federal lawsuit four African-American students filed against the Northwest Local School District and Colerain Township ...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/settlement-agreement-reached-in-rap.html

The Columbus Dispatch has put together a list of bills that still need attention before the end of this lame-duck session. A few of the bills have already been passed by both the House and Senate...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/many-ohio-bills-still-need-final-action.html

The New York Times, the Washington Post and SCOTUS Blog report that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the retroactivity of a ban on mandatory life sentences for juveniles...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/supreme-court-to-rule-on-whether-ban-on.html

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio is about to pass a bill that would offer protection to pets by including them in protection orders that are already available to victims of domestic violen...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/pets-to-be-covered-in-protection-orders.html

Ohio House Bill 624, which we discussed back in October, has hit a stumbling block in the Ohio legislature, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The bill, proposed by Rep. Dorothy Pelanda (R) in Septem...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/ohio-bill-protecting-elderly-and-other.html

The December 2014 issue of CNO Review features an article about unaccompanied minors in the U.S. and how they interact with the Ohio court system. According to the article, with the recent arriva...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/immigrant-children-in-ohio-courts.html

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the defense bill passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives contained provisions that would facilitate Ohio's plans to "become a hub for unmanned aer...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/ohio-drones-in-news.html

Activists with Greenpeace who staged a protest at Procter and Gamble's headquarters in Cincinnati last March will accept a plea deal that reduces their felony charges to criminal trespassing, the...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/greenpeace-protesters-to-take-plea-deal.html

A Hamilton County Common Pleas judge ruled on Tuesday that the City of Cincinnati must pay the costs for moving Duke energy's lines when building the infrastructure for the streetcar, according t...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/cincinnati-must-pay-duke-energys.html

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday about a relatively novel topic: threats on Facebook.  SCOTUS Blog reports that the case involved posts by Anthony Elonis, a Pennsylvania man ...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/scotus-hears-facebook-threats-case.html

Westlaw Classic is currently being phased out by Thomson Reuters and will be replaced by WestlawNext at the Hamilton County Law Library in January. We are excited to continue to offer Westlaw ser...

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Legal Aid of Western Ohio (LAWO) has launched a new interactive chat service that connects eligible low-income clients with volunteer attorneys in an online platform, according to Court News Ohio...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/12/legal-aid-of-western-ohio-launches-new.html

The Children's Law Center of Covington filed a complaint against Hamilton County Juvenile Court officials in federal court this week, alleging that the court's practice of detaining children with...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/suit-alleges-juvenile-detentions.html

According to Cleveland.com, Ohio State Rep. Alicia Reese (D-Cincinnati) will be introducing a bill to require certain toy and imitation firearms sold in Ohio to be "brightly colored or have promi...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/proposed-ohio-bill-would-require-bb.html

The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled last week that when evidence of other bad acts is improperly admitted at trial an appeals court must evaluate both the impact that the evidence had on the outcome ...

http://cincinnatilaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/rape-convictions-overturned-based-on.html

Some updates from previous posts for you on this Monday morning: Planned Parenthood The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the Ohio Department of Health has granted a variance to Planned Parenthood...

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