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[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
arnold whose main qualification for office seemed to be that he was abusive of women.

mnd

I hear he might need an assistant and that he likes administering spankings -- right up your alley, I'd say.

sf

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I hear he might need an assistant and that he likes administering spankings -- right up your alley, I'd say.

sf

i'd have to live in california though

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
i'd have to live in california though

And you expect everything to be wine and roses, I guess? Get real.

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by spookyfish
And you expect everything to be wine and roses, I guess? Get real.

no, mr. spookyfish, i only expect everrything to be wine and roses when i am good.

when i am naughty, i expect everything to be wine, roses, and spankings

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
no, mr. spookyfish, i only expect everrything to be wine and roses when i am good.

when i am naughty, i expect everything to be wine, roses, and spankings

apparently it does take jerry springer to get posts on this bored.

so keep those jerry springer updates coming, mr. violins.

[andViolins]

so what else is new.


Court extends protection for hurt workers

no longer fire an injured worker who uses up all available sick leave, as long as the employee is receiving certain workers' compensation benefits.

The unanimous Ohio Supreme Court decision last week that expanded job protection for injured workers caught the business community by surprise, said Charlie Smith, an attorney on the workers' compensation committee of the Ohio Manufacturing Association.

"This has implications across the board, even to smaller companies," Smith said. "They will have to maintain special rosters of workers' compensation recipients who will technically remain on the payroll and who will be entitled to return to work."

In a decision authored by Justice Alice Robie Resnick, the Supreme Court said that an employee who is receiving temporary total disability compensation cannot be terminated solely on the basis of being absent or because of an inability to work.

Ohio statutes prohibit employers from punishing employees for filing workers' compensation claims, but they do not address termination issues.

Despite a prevailing view of many lower courts that injured workers can be released for prolonged absences, the Supreme Court said public policy dictates that hurt employees have a right to compensation and any amount of recovery time needed for their injuries.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...3423249660.xml

aV

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by andViolins
so what else is new.


Court extends protection for hurt workers

The unanimous Ohio Supreme Court decision last week that expanded job protection for injured workers caught the business community by surprise.

aV

Wow. Unanimous? That surprises me, though I think if Cook were still on the Court, there would have been one dissent.

[andViolins]

From the Ohio S.Ct. website:

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF THE JULY 2003 OHIO BAR EXAMINATION

On July 29, 30, and 31, 2003, the Ohio Bar Examination was administered in Columbus. Today results of that examination are being released.

Out of 1376 applicants, 1010 applicants (73%) received passing scores; out of 1166 first time applicants, 81% received passing scores. The names and addresses of the successful applicants appear on the attached list.

The oath of office will be administered to applicants who were successful on the examination and who have satisfied all of the Supreme Court's other requirements for admission.

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/admissions/asp/

The site lets you search the results in several different ways (by school, county, city, etc.)

aV

[andViolins]

When I was in college, I remember going to a bar with a bunch of guys. One was not of age. He had a fake I.D. When the I.D. was checked at the door, the bouncer looked at him and said, "This is fake." Without batting an eye, the not of age kid said, "Uh, I have back-up." The bouncer began to laugh and said to the cop standing next to him, "This guy has back-up to a fake ID!!!" Everyone around began to laugh. I pretended not to know the guy.

This story reminded me of my stupid friend with backup for a fake ID.


Call for backup unravels ruse as marshal

The man wearing a badge and carrying a gun motioned for the driver to pull over. Then, Donald Sebastian did what every good cop does: He called for backup.

And that's what got him arrested.

Like his badge, Sebastian is a phony, authorities say. His desire to become a U.S. marshal was stopped by one thing - a criminal record with 29 arrests since 1975, including state and federal gun convictions.

"Who would call for backup?" said U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott. "That's what is so strange."

Sebastian, 54, of Middleburg Heights, was arrested yesterday on charges of impersonating a federal agent. He was released on a personal bond. Defense attorney Debra Migdal declined comment.

Sebastian told investigators, "It made me feel special to put on the marshal's uniform, even though I couldn't function as one." His home was littered with marshal service business cards, shirts, jackets, leather gloves and other gear that said he was a fed. He told authorities his ruse was his "way of giving back to the community."

"I would suggest a different type of volunteerism," said Strongsville Police Chief Charles Goss. "Most people impersonate an officer to carry out some other crime. But in this case, he called us."

Documents show that Sebastian, a dog trainer, was driving west on Ohio 82 at 4 p.m. Wednesday in a white Chevy Lumina with several antennas on it and a marshal's baseball cap in the rear dash. That's when he saw a car driven by Douglas Richards, 22, of North Olmsted appear to cut him off, authorities said.

Sebastian waved his finger at Richards, who returned the motion with an obscene gesture, documents show. Sebastian then showed his badge and ordered Richards to pull over at Whitney Road and Brushwood Lane in Strongsville.

Sebastian called the Police Department and requested backup. In the meantime, Sebastian refused to let Richards leave.

When an officer pulled up, Sebastian identified himself as the marshal's service canine officer, provided details of the stop and then drove away. Later, Strongsville officers called the marshal's service about the stop by the agency's dog handler, but the marshal's service doesn't have a canine officer.

"You're lucky you didn't mess with the wrong person and get your damn fool head blown off," U.S. Magistrate David Perelman told Sebastian during a hearing. "Did the thought ever occur to you that [you] could end up dead from nonsense like this?"

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...6866298160.xml

aV

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by andViolins
This story reminded me of my stupid friend with backup for a fake ID.

Call for backup unravels ruse as marshal

the really weird thing is that i think i saw a story about a guy who did the same thing which took place in a different state (although i think it was a news of the weird item so it could have been the same guy, but i didn't remember it as being in ohio and i think that guy was not impersonating a federal marshall).

but in any case, guys like that are why i do not practice criminal law and have no desire to do so.

[ms. naughty diplomat]

no comments on the continued expansion of jones day???

[andViolins]

Scott-Pontzer is dead.

WESTFIELD INSURANCE COMPANY v. GALATIS ET AL

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/do...-ohio-5849.doc

aV

p.s. I think Jones Day is getting bigger. And Leon's getting laarrrger!

[andViolins]

Another Shooting Reported on Ohio Highway

Thursday, December 04, 2003

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Only about half the tables in China City's quiet dining room were occupied at lunchtime. Manager Jeffrey Zhu blames his restaurant's proximity to the area where someone has fired shots at 11 vehicles and a school.


"It's not as busy as it should be," Zhu said Wednesday. "Usually at lunch, it's packed. We were busier before the shootings."

Since authorities began connecting the shootings, there has been at least one more on the same short stretch of freeway south of Columbus, police told The Columbus Dispatch for its Thursday editions. A woman reported Tuesday that a bullet had hit her car on Sunday, six days after a passenger in another car was killed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104819,00.html

aV

[spookyfish]

I heard this on the radio this morning and had to look it up.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...7134122181.xml

(Spree: Newsflash: Eleventh District determines cows aren't vehicles under Ohio Law.)

The best part of the opinion follows:

"A cow is self-propelled, does not run on rails and could be used as a conveyance," the court ruled recently. "However, there is no indication in the records that this particular cow had wheels."

I'm wondering if this wouldn't have come out differently had someone been riding the cow, or if the lack of wheels was dispositive.

This isn't going to help our rep on this board.

sf

[andViolins]

Originally posted by spookyfish The best part of the opinion follows:

"A cow is self-propelled, does not run on rails and could be used as a conveyance," the court ruled recently. "However, there is no indication in the records that this particular cow had wheels."

sf

I disagree. The best part of the story is in the newspaper article:

D. Michael Johanson, the lawyer who represented Halcyon, said uninsured-motorist insurance cannot cover animals.

"If you can't get the cow behind the wheel of a car, it's not going to work," he said.

Thus, there is hope for you and your uninsured-motorist coverage if you happen to hit Toonsis the driving cat.

aV