Stephen Hardwick
Appellate public defender. Poll worker. Peace Corps Tunisia. Low-level zoning chair. Wolverine in Buckeye land. Cyclist. Personal views only. On the payroll of the rain garden interests.
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- Ohio appellate practice note: After off-the-bench comments by a couple Ohio Supreme Court justices, “friend on the other side” has become “colleague on the other side” for regular practitioners. #AppellateSky
- Today, I tried something new—taking the bus to an Ohio Supreme Court OA. I liked that I could review briefs as I rode, but I made one mistake. I keep my fountain pens in a case in my backpack, which I didn’t bring, and I realized on the way that I didn’t have even one pen. #AppellateSky
- TIL the Ohio Supreme Court has a selfie backdrop. #AppellateSky
- I agree to the extent this post explains why some people speak with the police. For the most part, they’re not stupid. Just human. And if we don’t take the natural drive to protect “personal dignity, integrity, & autonomy” into consideration when advising clients to shut up, we’re not doing our job.
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- Ohio would be better with a lot less property tax IF replaced by income taxes & a higher CAT (which this measure wouldn’t do), but the “we only tax 35% of the property value” line is misleading. Local gov’t sets rates assuming the 35% rule, so rates are 3x higher than if 100% of value were taxed.
- Why is traffic so congested around a stadium with only a couple access points?
- A #legalwriting, shoe-don’t-tell dissenting opinion.
- An Ohio Supreme Court majority agrees with a magistrate’s decision that defining high concentrations of nitrogen as a “toxic gas” is “redundant. Dissent: I “strongly and emphatically” dissent, whether or not saying so is redundant. Opinion: www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
- An Ohio Supreme Court majority agrees with a magistrate’s decision that defining high concentrations of nitrogen as a “toxic gas” is “redundant. Dissent: I “strongly and emphatically” dissent, whether or not saying so is redundant. Opinion: www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
- Another Trump vanity parade is better than throwing them into the sea, I guess.
