Proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution seeks to invalidate the federal health care mandate in Ohio *

USA - September 13 2011
This November, Ohioans will vote on a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution (“Ohio Amendment”), which purports to exempt Ohio from certain aspects of the federal “Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act of 2010” (the “Health Care Act”), the national health care overhaul enacted last year.

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When workers’ compensation and disabilities laws collide— blind reliance on a workers’ comp order can violate the ADA, Sixth Circuit holds *

USA - September 1 2011
The legal worlds of workers’ compensation law and the laws against disability discrimination sometimes collide and leave employers with difficult decisions about how to comply with each.

Co-authors: James G. Petrie.

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Supreme Court can’t rule on the constitutionality of JobsOhio – yet *

USA - August 22 2011
The Supreme Court of Ohio on Friday, August 19, 2011, scuttled a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the JobsOhio legislation (House Bill 1) enacted earlier this year.

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Employee who was fired for failing to obtain a required professional license cannot get unemployment benefits *

USA - June 22 2011
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio held today that a fired employee was ineligible to receive unemployment benefits when she was fired for failing to obtain a professional license that was required as a condition of hiring.

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Arbitration agreements do not have to allow classwide arbitration, holds U.S. Supreme Court *

USA - April 29 2011
In a case that may have ramifications for arbitration agreements in a wide variety of contexts, the United States Supreme Court held this week that the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not require arbitration agreements to allow class-action arbitration of claims in order to be enforceable.

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