Appellate public defender. Peace Corps Tunisia. Lowest-level zoning chair. Wolverine in Buckeye land. Election worker. Cyclist. Personal account with personal views only. “On the payroll of the rain garden interests.” he/him
If a school district replaces regular class with study so kids who leave DURING THE SCHOOL DAY for private religious training won’t miss anything, these not-really-non-profits are taking learning time from students who go to school for, you know, school.
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Looking at this Sailor Manyo Ayame fountain pen ink with my bare eyes, it seems to look darker & greener from angle than when I look strait down. But I can’t reproduce it with a camera. Am I just imagining it?
I do like the soft grayish green. The green comes out much more when shading than writing
I had a moment of panic when I thought they might be closing the library—pretty much all the shelves were empty, & librarians were removing books from seemingly the rest. But thankfully no. It turns out that the tall shelves had become unstable, & they’re replacing them with shorter, safer shelves.
RIP my Thule panniers. They lasted nearly ten years. If only they had sewn the seams on the bottom, they’d still be working. I loved the simplicity (no pouches or dividers) and the magnet that attached the bottom part to my rack. Let’s see how long these Rhinowalks last.
I’ve been listening to Wastelands & Wastelands 2–collections of post-apocalyptic short stories. Depressing, but good. One cool thing w/ short stories is that you can move on if one doesn’t resonate. I’ve only done that once so far.
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Most of us have some home-town pride, but one way the Ohio Supreme Court is objectively better than the Georgia Supreme Court is transparency. Georgia wants us to pay to read opinions & downloard arguments, & the dockets don't link to filings. By contrast, the Ohio Supreme Court…
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One thing that's seems to be different in Georgia. In Ohio, the county prosecutor represents common pleas court generally judges in writ cases, which can be awkward when the writ is about a criminal case. In Georgia, that appears to be the AG's job. www.gasupreme.us/docket-search/
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Two key points by @doug_weinstein’s petition for mandamus to the SCOGA (L) and @LesterTate’s affidavit (R). Judge Glanville tried to act as his own judge and failed to follow the rule. But also, Glanville not only failed to disclose the ex parte meeting but tried to bury it more!
Feeling lucky I have a job with a flexible schedule that lets me head to WFH before the worst of the heat, as well as a bus system that lets me pay $2 to sit in air conditioning instead of sweating in the sun.
This dude doesn’t like me much to begin with (except when I’m in the act of playing with him out brushing him), but now he’s even more miffed that I took away his toy—a mouse that he killed and whose corpse he was batting around.
Thankfully, he doesn’t try to eat what he kills.
So it’s wrong when a judge “flaunts” dictionary definitions about what a key word in a statute means, uses “blandly technical language” when interpreting blandly technical language, & cares more about what the words of a law mean than whether it’s a smart idea?
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Ohio at least has a religious exemption from our photo-ID. A person can swear under penalty of perjury that they have a religious objection to have it their photo taken—with a catch. Our poll worker trainers said the BOE would check to see if the person had any recent…
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I found the last of his FOUR disciplinary cases. In addition to breaking client confidences about OSU football, he boasted about having sex with a judge & said that’s why he’d get a continuance, & he also altered his own speeding ticket to a lesser offense. www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
For non-lawyers, let me just say that a judge has to be pretty awful before large numbers of local attorneys go on the record with criticism. Even more so when no local attorney will publicly defend the judge.
Allegedly, Judge Glanville threatened to lock up a witness for years if he failed to testify for the State and made no objection when the State told the witness they would not charge him with perjury even when he said he would be lying on the stand.
I didn’t realize that the judge had to push the prosecutors to cut their witness list *down* to 200. What kind of bonkers prosecutor tries to have a 400-witness case? Even with 200 witnesses, it’s like trying to work with a 20,000-page pdf. Yeah, it might work for a bit, but it’s gonna crash.
This reminds me of when former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Moyer ruled that he likely would have been "inclined" to deny disqualification--if the judge hadn't written such an angry screed against the lawyer seeking to disqualify him. www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
Come be my (long-distance) colleague! My office, the Ohio Public Defender, is looking for an Assistant Public Defender in our Trumbull County office. For more information or to apply, visit bit.ly/3KuLAV8, or scan the QR code in the image below.
New entry in the Font Files: A company files a notice of appeal without a lawyer’s signature. Then it hires a lawyer who uses a font so annoying that Judge Easterbrook calls him out by name & uses the font to show how awful it is. ⚖️
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Here’s an example from the list. It includes no editorial comment or curation. It’s just a list of the propositions of law that the court had agreed to decide.
Unlike SCOTUS, which wants issue presented as questions, the Ohio Supreme Court wants to know what specific holding the appellant seeks.
I have no idea about the merits of this pro se request for a discretionmary appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, but the appellant clearly put a ton of work into it, so having more than 2/3 of it stricken has to hurt. ⚖️
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