Thirty-seven former Ohio State athletes, including ex-football players, filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school Wednesday, the latest federal lawsuit that alleges sexual abuse by former team doctor Richard Strauss. He served in various roles in his 20 years at Ohio State, including more than a decade as a team doctor. According to the lawsuit, some athletes reported Strauss’ abuse to former …
CHRIS BURY: In Ohio, the climbing costs of the opioid epidemic are reflected in the shattered lives of people like Ashley Taylor. For the 26-year-old single mother of three, the road to addiction began in high school with pain pills often stolen from parents of friends. By 16, she was snorting, then shooting, heroin, because it was cheaper and easy to buy in the small southern Ohio town of …
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Conservation groups today sued the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management over plans to permit hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Ohio’s only national forest, the Wayne. The lawsuit aims to void BLM leases and halt fracking in the national forest. Today’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus, charges that the agencies failed to analyze threats to …
It’s now up to individual Ohio school districts to decide which restroom and shower facility their transgender students should use. A federal lawsuit has been dismissed upon a request by Ohio and the nine other states that went to court over a May directive from the administration of former President Barack Obama saying schools should allow transgender students to use the facilities of the …
A federal judge on Friday said he will issue a restraining order against Donald Trump’s campaign and longtime adviser Roger Stone to avoid “harassing or intimidating conduct” at polling places on Nov. 8 Election Day. U.S. District Judge James Gwin did not specify exactly what will or will not be allowed but said the order would …
PNC Bank has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by victims of William Apostelos’ alleged Ponzi scheme. The class action lawsuit filed by Dr. Rafael M. Cruz, Dr. Gloria Cruz and Dr. Rafael F. Cruz in Dayton’s U.S. District Court seeks at least $30 million in damages. The suit alleges that PNC Bank missed red flags that Apostelos used his accounts in a suspicious manner.
“Close to a thousand” users of Mylan N.V.’s EpiPen have expressed interest in joining a class-action lawsuit alleging price-gouging, the FOX Business Network has learned. “We have probably close to 1,000 people that have reached out to us. Social media is unbelievable.
An Ohio man will be allowed to sue a web monitoring software maker for breaking US state and federal wiretap laws, the US Court of Appeals has ruled this week. In 2009, Javier Luis forged an online friendship with Catherine Zang, married at the time to her husband, Joseph Zang. Even if later it would be proven that the relationship was platonic, Mr. Zang became suspicious of his wife, which led …
Former Ohio State marching band director Jon Waters’ argument of reverse gender discrimination was dismissed by Federal Judge James Graham on Friday. Waters filed a lawsuit in September 2014 in the U.S. District Court against OSU, University President Michael Drake and then-Provost and …
A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived Ohio’s lawsuit accusing Freddie Mac of defrauding the state’s $87.3 billion public pension fund by hiding its exposure to subprime and other risky mortgages prior to the 2007-09 financial crisis. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge erred in finding that the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) did not plausibly …