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Three times this week, Ohio’s Supreme Court rules for fat cat businesses over the little guy: Today in OhioCLEVELAND, Ohio - An Ohio Supreme Court ruling Tuesday all but cast a death knell over a $650 million judgement two Ohio counties won from chain pharmacy operators for their role in sparking an opioid epidemic.
Ohio lawmakers look like they seek to take some discretion away from the Ohio Supreme Court clowns, by reducing nuisance lawsuits that target free speech. How would the SLAPP legislation work? We’ve got a bit more than a week left in the Legislature’s lame duck session, so it’s that time when lawmakers load up on what we call Christmas tree bills. What are they, and what’s going into them this time around?
In Ohio, boneless does not mean boneless? And “boneless chicken wings” is a cooking method, like baking? Today in Ohio The counties were awarded $650.9 million in damages. The pharmacies appealed and asked the Ohio Supreme Court to settle this law. So the two dissenting justices, Melody Stewart and Mike Donnelly, both of whom are leaving the bench in January, said the plaintiffs didn’t seek compensatory damages, only reimbursement for costs of the opioid epidemic. So this law shouldn’t apply here.
and has a bunch of supporters, the Ohio News Media Association, the Ohio Association of Broadcasters, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the State Bar Association, the ACLU. So I would think if it passed this overwhelmingly and it’s got this much support, this will be something that slides through before the end of the session at the end of this month.Yeah. Yeah. And with Teresa Gavaron behind it, she is a rising star. It does give it credibility. This is important.
that some council members are not happy with. And we saw that here with the Slavic Villages councilwoman, Rebecca Moore. She’s not satisfied. She feels like Slavic Village was diced up in a unique way. The final maps, you know, I don’t, they look reasonable, but we don’t have all like the political kind of infighting knowledge to know exactly what may have been toyed with or not. It’s hard to discern.
after 60 days so even if you know so they would have to provide this information basically before discovery. This bill is supported by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the insurance lobby and big businesses they say it protects from overzealous attorneys who want to over name multiple defendants which runs up costs for innocent companies.Yeah, it’s another example of the legislature being bought and paid for by moneyed interests. The people that suffer from this, they suffer a lot.
and Lorraine has been removed from that probationary period and state control altogether. But I agree if you look, it is admirable to try to improve schools, but you need a plan to improve them, not just say we’re going to take this bunch at the bottom every year and give them to somebody else to run.
in committee regarding changes to election law. So one of these changes that were tacked on to kind of an innocuous bill related to the state’s IT policy, one of these changes here would give the attorney general power to reject a petitioner’s proposed constitutional amendment on the grounds that the title of that amendment isn’t fair and truthful.
of any mental or physical healthcare changes. It would let parents opt their kids out of receiving such healthcare. But tacked onto this bill, a new version that was passed in committee on Tuesday would also require school districts to add a policy by next summer, which would allow kids to be released for religious instruction outside schools.Okay, you’re listening to Today in Ohio.
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