KingCast applauds Ohio Supreme Court on Norwood v. Horney.

Alright, the last post on the divine Ms. Molly was fun, but let's get back to business here:

Volokh Conspiracy agrees that the Ohio Supreme Court did the right thing in rejecting a Norwood eminent domain plan to boost property from the poor -- to give to the rich developers for a "higher value use."

I know Norwood very well, having attended Xavier University as well as University of Cincinnati. Xavier is in Norwood, Ohio, and when I packed off to go there in 1984 the whole state was terrified of one Alton Coleman, whose killing spree went through Norwood. Real people live in Norwood; it is a townie-gownie sitch. And I just remembered the Norman Lear sitcom Mary Hartman/Mary Hartman was set there as well but they called it Fernwood. Show star Louise Lasser was married to Woody Allen 1967-1973.



Anyway, that Horney Decision is great. Sadly, however several years ago that same court did the wrong thing to a former Ohio Assistant Attorney General who used to sit in those very Supreme Court chairs while holding moot court sessions with his peers. The Court never squarely addressed the issue of whether an attorney, not directly involved in a case may serve as a phone-taping landlord racial tester (Ohio is a one-party state) pursuant to Cases like Heights Community Congress v. Hilltop Realty. Why would the attorney seek to do such a thing? Because he had been informed of rampant uses of the nigger-bomb from a Campus Area Realty management company to a "nigger lover" leaseholder named Candy Cantrell. Read the actual JPEG'd court filing that ostensibly got the former AAG then solo Civil Rights lawyer in trouble right here.

Ostensibly? Hell yeah, ostensibly. See, that former Assistant Attorney General is me, and we have on video my disciplinary hearing where opposing counsel Julie Davis specifically said that the only issue before the court was the surreptitious phone taping -- which their own bar fellow Charles Kurtz, Esq. specifically opined was not unethical when we did it. Read what he wrote right here. Yet if you read the Supreme Court decision, it takes into account all matter of "issues" that I was not allowed to address at my hearing. That's called a Due Process violation, duh.

What really got me in trouble was representing people like Jerry Doyle as seen here, and having World-reknown Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mike Royko twice side up with my client and me over a ridiculous tattoo case in which -- get this -- the state was compelling my client to give a tattoo to an HIV positive person. As seen here. We argued in favor of physician consent, and even politely approached the Board of Health about it in diplomatic measure, but they told us to get fucked. Federal Court Judge Holschuh's clerk was a drinkin' buddy of mine at B. Hampton's and he told me straight out that our Federal Court case against the state got tossed because Holschuh didn't want to deal with it. Later, after his wife died, His Honor pulled an alcohol-involved hit and run and got away with it. Unfortunate but true: I was there.

Perhaps inspired by Holschuh's performance, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Resnick subsequently tried a similar move that you can read about in the links right here.

Anyway, today the law -- R.C. 3730.02 -- reads precisely as we had proposed to resolve the matter ten years ago because that is how my client handled everybody with a medical issue, dammit.

So in the end, then it is the Columbus establishment who need to go and get fucked. I mean, when is it gonna' be their turn because they've already fucked the taxpayers, Attorney Pope and me just about raw, dog. No grease and no mercy.

Suggested viewing:
"American Lawyer 1" at KingCast.net
"Day in Nashua" at KingCast.net
"Then and Now" at Justiceforkids.net.

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