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University of Akron pays $550,000 settlement to PhD students to resolve deceptive-trade-practices claims

AKRON, OHIO—The University of Akron has paid a settlement of $550,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed in 2018 in the Summit County Court of Common

Supreme Court of Ohio reverses Eighth District; rules that prevailing parties may collect attorney’s fees incurred in defending punitive damages awards on appeal

Yesterday, in a 5-2 decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled in ...

Summit County court worker sues judge, deputies for attacking him while entering courthouse from employee entrance—Cleveland.com

Curtis Williams II, a licensed psychologist working for a Summit County Common Pleas ...

Supreme Court of Ohio rejects KNR law firm’s appeal in class-action fraud suit

Today the Supreme Court of Ohio announced its decision to decline the KNR ...

“‘This was a fraud’: New evidence revealed in Canton McKinley pizza incident” — Fox 8 Cleveland

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – The attorney representing several Canton McKinley football coaches fired ...

Testimony in Canton McKinley pizza case confirms that football player’s attorney fabricated claims of religious discrimination against terminated coaches

In the interests of correcting the record and mitigating the damage caused by the defamatory accusations of antisemitism that made local, national, and international headlines and cost Marcus Wattley his job ...

Settlement to pay for Burkons legal fees—The Cleveland Jewish News

“Burkons[‘] lawyer, Peter Pattakos of the Pattakos Law Firm in Fairlawn told the CJN in a May 25 email that Burkons placed a ...

Appeals court OKs class-action lawsuit against law firm over $50 ʻinvestigative feeʼ charged to tens of thousands of clients—Cleveland.com

A three-judge panel of the Ninth District Ohio Court of Appeals last week unanimously upheld a lower court’s ...

Editorial: UT should process Title IX complaints faster—Toledo Blade

The University of Toledo must do better processing Title IX complaints It’s not about winning or losing a court case It’s about doing ...