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Court disallows class-action lawsuit for mortgage violations during pandemic
A Hamilton County man is entitled to a $250 payment from his mortgage lender for the company’s failure to report within 90 days that the mortgage had been paid off, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled last week. However, a class-action lawsuit by others experiencing the same issue during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic c ... (full story)
Transportation Department says more than 550 driving schools must close over safety failures
More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation Department announced last week.
The move marks the Trump administration's ... (full story)
A movie that takes liberties with 'Wuthering Heights'? Scholars are OK with that
NEW YORK (AP) — If you're looking for someone to debate the new “Wuthering Heights” movie with, you might want to start with Lucasta Miller. She's a British author, editor and critic who has published an acclaimed study of the Brontë sisters and wrote the preface for the Penguin Classics edition of “Wuth ... (full story)
9th District Court of Appeals presiding and admin. judges discuss their goals
Promising to continue the court’s positive course, Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals judges Donna Carr and Jill Flagg Lanzinger recently took on key leadership roles as this year’s presiding and administrative judge respectively, after being unanimously chosen by their peers on the bench.
“I am honored that my ... (full story)
At the Olympics and beyond, women's sports media outlets are writing their own playbooks
Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women's sports back in the 1990s.
“It was absolutely infuriating to me,” said Brennan, a best-selling author who served as the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.
Now? ... (full story)