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The battle over the Quicken Loans Arena renovation deal is now headed to the Ohio Supreme Court. Cleveland city leaders announced Monday that they are asking the high court to decide if they must take action on referendum petitions seeking to repeal the City Council’s approval of the $140 million dollar upgrade.  Greater Cleveland Congregations […]

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The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments in the death penalty appeal of Anthony Sowell on April 5. Sowell, who was convicted of the murders of 11 women between 2007 and 2009 in Cleveland, has raised multiple issues with his trial, convictions, and death sentence. Police discovered the women’s bodies in and around his home […]

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  On Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court suspended the law license of Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes until disciplinary charges pending against her are resolved. In a complaint, the court’s disciplinary office asked the state’s top court last month to block her from practicing law to prevent her from again hearing criminal cases. The […]

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  The Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court has recommended that Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes be disciplined for what it calls abusive treatment of nearly everyone that comes into her courtroom. The 49 page report  comes to the conclusion that Stokes “may be suffering from a mental illness that substantially impairs her […]

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Yvette McGee Brown fell only two percentage points shy of becoming the first black lieutenant governor in Ohio, but just a few weeks later, she claimed another spot in that state’s history. Then-Gov. Ted Strickland, McGee Brown’s former running mate, appointed her to the Ohio State Supreme Court to fill a vacancy created when Justice […]