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Domestic Relations Web Tool Developed for Judges and Magistrates
A guide to domestic relations legal topics, such as child support, marital property division, and protection orders, has been restructured into a web-driven resource to better serve judges and magistrates.
The Domestic Relations Resource Guide on the Supreme Court of Ohio website gives judges and magistrates quick access to esse ... (full story)
UN General Assembly condemns the US economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year after its foreign minister strongly criticized the Biden administration and expressed hope a new president would end it.
The vote in the 193-member world body was 187-2, with only the United ... (full story)
New Haven rejected plans for a Black college in 1831. Generations later, it's considering an apology
In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation's first African American college in New Haven, Connecticut, in an attempt to open a door to education that was largely shut in a time of slavery.
Instead, the city's freemen — white male landowners with the sole authority to vote, many with t ... (full story)
Ohio Constitution prohibits judges from sealing juvenile delinquency records without considering the public’s interest
A state law mandating the blanket sealing of records in delinquency cases when a juvenile is not found delinquent violates the Ohio Constitution because it does not allow for any consideration of the public’s interest in access to the records, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.
In a divided opinion, the Supreme Cour ... (full story)