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The law requires that copies of public records must be made available at cost. A public office acts within its discretion when it declines a public records request based on a good faith belief that the party requesting the records was unable to pay for…
Any person who feeds or boards an animal under contract with the owner has a lien on such animal to secure payment for food and board furnished. The contract does not need to be in writing. This is known as an agister’s lien. The process…
Douglas Graff of Graff & McGovern is representing several plaintiffs in a defamation suit brought against Mount Carmel Health System based upon the hospital throwing them “under the bus†when it investigated Dr. William Husel, who was indicted in 2019 on twenty-five counts of murder…
Graff & McGovern Attorney Douglas Graff has been defending Ohio licensees for over twenty-five years. He has seen it all as they say. At least he thought he had. A nurse client came to Attorney Graff with a subpoena she received, ordering her to appear…
Hearing examiners should not hear cases if they have shown bias towards attorneys involved in the case. The same standards to determine bias for a judge, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Administrative Law Handbook, arguably should be applicable to a hearing examiner. If a…
On December 4, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would no longer make marijuana a controlled substance, allowing for a shared Federal and State regulatory system. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act passed in the House with 222 of…
In January 2020, a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter sought investigation materials and University of Cincinnati law enforcement records after the university gave a graduation award to a student with a sex offender conviction. UC denied the public records request, stating that law enforcement records in the…
The State Medical Board of Ohio announced it will once again consider new conditions to be treated with medical cannabis. The Medical Board began taking applications on November 1, 2020. Although decisions on the applications submitted November 1, 2020, should be issued no later than…
Little Butterflies Daycare and Preschool had its daycare license revoked by the Ohio Department of Job and Family services. It appealed the revocation to the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, and asked the Court to stay the revocation of their license. The stay request…
As a result of the coronavirus and stay-at-home orders, regulatory agencies have been affected, but it has not been negative. In the Governor’s stay-at-home order, the medical marijuana industry is an essential business. This caused other changes, which regulatory agencies say are temporary. These changes…