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Wooden gavel
Mar 18, 2021

Lindenbaum v. Realgy, LLC (amicus)

First Amendment
Status: Closed

Facts

The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) contains a number of restrictions on unsolicited telemarketing. One provision of the TCPA prohibits the use of “robocalls,” or the...

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Wooden gavel
Wooden gavel
Mar 12, 2021

Wood v. Eubanks (amicus)

First Amendment
Status: Victory!

Facts

In 2016, Michael Woods attended the Clark County Fair while wearing a “fuck the police” shirt. He was approached by a county fair board member and six Clark County Sheriff’s deputies and...

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Wooden gavel
Feb 12, 2021

Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Yost

Status: Active

Facts

On December 21, 2018 Governor DeWine signed into law Senate Bill 145. This law criminalizes the safest and most common method for second trimester abortion, dilation and extraction (D&E...

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Wooden gavel
Feb 12, 2021

Petitt v. Morrow, et al.

First Amendment
Status: Closed

Nick Petitt filmed a Columbus Police SWAT team from his porch. Officers then entered onto Mr. Petitt’s property unlawfully, attacked him, arrested him, and seized his phone, in violation of the Fourth and...

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Wooden gavel
Feb 12, 2021

State v. O'Malley (amicus)

Status: Active

Facts

The defendant-appellant, James O’Malley was convicted of an OVI Pursuant to Ohio’s forfeiture law, Medina County seized and kept his $31,000 truck—a gift from his grandparents, and his only...

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Wooden gavel
Feb 12, 2021

State v. Foreman (amicus)

Status: Won

Under the prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment and Article I § 9 of the Ohio Constitution, it is unlawful to prosecute a person for the status or condition of being a “...

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