JURIST - Ohio

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released a report on Thursday urging the Ohio Supreme Court to bring an end to the state's practice of jailing people who cannot pay their court fines. The ACLU alleges that this practice is used in seven of the 11 counties investigated. The report c....... [more]

On April 6, 2011, Ohio's Republican-majority Senate approved a bill that limited abortions performed in the state to 20 weeks into a woman's pregnancy. The act required doctors to ascertain the viability of the fetus and to solicit a second opinion as to whether the fetus could survive outside of th....... [more]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a nuisance suit by Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania to compel the US Army Corp of Engineers and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to construct barriers between Chicago-area waterways a....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday ruled that a former Somali military colonel was responsible for the torture of a human rights advocate in the 1980s. Colonel Abdi Aden Magan did not present any evidence to dispute allegations that he directed subordinate....... [more]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a stay application in Husted v. Obama for America, allowing early voting for all Ohio citizens in the three days preceding the November election. The court declined the stay without comment or dissent. After the order, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted issue....... [more]

Ohio officials on Saturday urged the US Supreme Court to approve its request for an emergency stay of an injunction against the state's new early voting regulation. The brief was filed after US President Barack Obama's campaign staff and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a brief Friday....... [more]

US President Barack Obama's campaign staff and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday urged the US Supreme Court to reject Ohio's request for an emergency stay of an injunction against the state's new early voting regulation. The new regulation would end early voting for everyone except o....... [more]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday upheld a preliminary injunction against an Ohio state election law adopted in 2006 that discards provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Pursuant to the law, the provisional ballots were rejected even if the error was caused by a poll....... [more]

Ohio officials filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking permission to close early voting three days prior to election day for everyone but overseas military personnel. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine filed the request seeking to stay....... [more]

On October 9, 2008, the New York Times published a report stating findings that thousands of eligible voters in swing states had been removed from voter rolls in violation of federal law. The report came after both the Ohio Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected cha....... [more]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that permitted an Ohio law limiting the use of the "abortion pill." The law requires that the use of the pill, RU-486, conform with federal guidelines, which currently do not allow the pill to be used after seve....... [more]