Postmortem: Another Empty Promise from Inside the Beltway
By Matt A. Mayer, posted July 12, 2007
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act is dead. That is a good thing. Given all of the energy that was spent inside the Beltway to try and pass it, you would have thought that the proposed legislation truly would have fixed the problem of our failed immigration system. You would...
By Michael J. Maurer, Director, posted October 1, 2008
By Michael J. Maurer, Director, posted September 24, 2008
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Merit Selection Isn't the Answer to Ensuring a Better High Court
By David J. Owsiany, posted April 26, 2004
Big money is being poured into the campaign coffers of the candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court. Two candidates in a contested race for an open seat on the court spent a record total of $670,000 in last month's Democratic primary. Republican candidates, two of whom are incumbents, are reported to already have raised in excess of $300,000 each for the three contested court seats up for election in November.
The Dardinger Case: An Unconstitutional Taking
By Ralph Frasca, posted January 1, 2003
Does a court have the right to confiscate a jury award? Yes, according to the Ohio Supreme Court, which has again awarded itself previously undiscovered constitutional powers. It now has the self-proclaimed right to decide how a punitive damage award should be spent. Esther Dardinger had...
Ohio's Nominees to Federal Court Deserve Confirmation
By David J. Owsiany, posted December 1, 2002
The recent debate over President Bush’s nomination of Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals brings to light the broader problem of the growing number of judicial vacancies on federal courts generally and especially on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals which covers Ohio, Michigan,...
By David J. Owsiany, posted March 1, 2002
New York Times columnist Adam Cohen recently wrote an extremely critical opinion piece attacking Deborah Cook, President Bush’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Cohen criticized Cook, Ohio Supreme Court justice, for being the court’s “most prolific dissenter” who...
Resnick Ignores the American Form of Government
By David J. Owsiany, posted December 1, 2000
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Deborah Cook pointed out in her dissenting opinion in last year’s case striking down Ohio’s system of school funding that she viewed the court’s “ill conceived foray outside its legitimate role to be a most serious affront to individual freedom and democratic...
In Defense of the Electoral College
By David J. Owsiany, posted November 1, 2000
Much has been made of the Electoral College since the results of this year’s election indicate a potential that Texas Governor George W. Bush could be elected president without winning the popular vote nationally. The Electoral College, which was a central aspect to the founding fathers’ vision of...
By David J. Owsiany, posted May 1, 2000
The Ohio Supreme Court continued its attack on the doctrine of separation of powers and, ultimately, on Ohio’s taxpayers with its recent decision finding for the second time the system for funding schools is inadequate.[1] The court struck down the school funding system despite the fact that the...
Reform attorneys' fees in Ohio
By Michael E. Solimine, J.D., posted December 1, 1999
Who pays the lawyers? In the United States, each side pays its own lawyer in most civil lawsuits – no matter if that side wins, loses, or settles out of court.[1] In contrast, the prevailing practice in England is that the losing party pays the winner’s attorney fees.[2] Alaska is the only...
