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Beachwood officials institute retaliatory criminal proceedings against Councilman Mike Burkons

As reported this morning by the Cleveland Jewish News, Beachwood City Councilman Mike Burkons has retained attorney Peter Pattakos to represent him in criminal proceedings

Court of appeals reverses conviction of Olmsted Falls police-abuse victim

Today, a unanimous panel of the Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cleveland, ...

Summit County settles with estate of Hartville woman who died at jail—Canton Repository

Summit County has agreed to settle [a wrongful death claim] by the ...

NAPA dismisses lawsuit against former national training director Tom Rayk

On October 18, 2019, Genuine Parts Company d/b/a NAPA Auto Parts sued its ...

Brecksville Councilman Jack Petsche sues for injunction against unconstitutional removal proceedings

Yesterday, Brecksville Councilman Jack Petsche filed a lawsuit in the Cuyahoga County ...

TownHall sues Scene over report on GM’s bigoted statement to former employee: “Go back to the country you came from”—Cleveland Scene

Scene has retained attorney Peter Pattakos to represent it in this lawsuit, who has issued the following statement: “TownHall has advanced an incredible legal theory—that it should be entitled to damages for ...

Lawsuit says UT mishandled sexual harassment complaints—Toledo Blade

Mr Pattakos said the university knew about the sexual harassment allegations involving his client as early of May, 2018, but it took a year for the administration to act on his ...

Attorney for murder victim questions police bodycam footage outside Mayor Frank Jackson’s home—19 News Cleveland

19 News showed some of the bodycam footage of police arriving at the mayor’s house to question his grandson, Frank Q Jackson It took six months for police to release those limited, ...

Summit County judge grants class-action status to KNR lawsuit—Cleveland.com

Judge James Brogan, a retired Dayton-area appellate court judge, said in the 56-page ruling that KNR charged its clients for what was an essentially an “ambulance-chasing fee” and that evidence shows ...