My excellent pro bono local counsel Jeffrey M. Nye and I have put together an updated motion in this case, which is now captioned M.R., a Cincinnati Police Officer v. Niesen. (Our original motion was filed when, because of an apparent error on the Clerk’s Office part, the entire case seemed to have been sealed.) […]
Several law student groups have invited me to give Zoom talks this Fall, and I enthusiastically accepted. It’s less engaging, of course, than an in-person talk, but there’s no travel time and no travel cost, so I’m much more open to such invitations than I had been to in-person speaking engagements. And this reminded me […]
I blogged this morning about what I think is an unconstitutional injunction that bars defendants—who had accused a police officer of making a white supremacist gesture—from mentioning the name of the officer, who is suing them for libel. I think the underlying allegations against the officer are quite weak (the gesture, the familiar “OK,” has […]
I wrote yesterday about a Black Lives Matter Chicago statement that publicly defended looters, in part by saying: “Over the past few months, too many people—disproportionately Black and Brown—have lost their jobs, lost their income, lost their homes, and lost their lives as the city has done nothing and the Chicago elite have profited,” the […]
I blogged last week about a motion to unseal filed on my behalf (by Jeffrey M. Nye [Stagnaro, Saba & Patterson]) in this case. Since then, I’ve found out more about it—and in some ways, it’s even more troubling than before. [1.] The backstory: WKRC (James Pilcher) reported: A veteran Cincinnati police officer sued several citizens […]
