by Richard Siferd | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
The bar exam in Ohio is stuck in antiquity. The questions are screwy and the grading is subjective. Imagine that you are a bar examiner and you have to grade hundreds of long handwritten answers to an essay question. God help you. The time has come for change....
by Richard Siferd | Sep 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ohio has adopted a form of comparative negligence and abolished contributory negligence as a complete defense. With comparative negligence in Ohio if a defendant is 75% negligent, for example, but the plaintiff is 25% negligent, then the plaintiff’s damages are...
by Richard Siferd | Sep 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Let nothing be said of the dead, but good” is my translation. Having said that, I will violate that precept. The last issue of Ohio Lawyer magazine had an article, “President’s Perspective,” on civility as one of the legacies of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer. I...
by Richard Siferd | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
This case is a textbook example how privileged interests get favored treatment by the Ohio Supreme Court. In previous posts I have explained that the large contributors to Supreme Court campaigns are the corporate community, the insurance industry and the medical...
by Richard Siferd | Jul 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yes, they are like unsmiling, somber, cruel medieval clerics debating a concept that defies common sense. Since they are on the Supreme Court they can make their own Supreme Court Sense and debate it. Yes, Corporations are persons, but they are “virtual” persons. They...
