‘While a tidal wave of courts around the nation have struck down marriage bans, this decision leaves Sixth Circuit states in a backwater and, worst of all, injures same-sex couples and their children.’
(Cincinnati, OH, November 6th...
Cleveland, Ohio, November 6, 2014: The City of Cleveland will pay $3,000,000.00 to the families of Melissa Williams and Timothy Russell, the unarmed couple chased and killed by Cleveland police on November 29, 2012. The settlement is one of the...
On February 14, 2011, Plaintiff Tommy Baker was in his home, standing at the top of a flight of stairs to his basement. A Union Township police officer entered his home and tased Baker without justification. Baker fell down the flight of stairs...
On November 18, 2014, in Cincinnati, Al Gerhardstein will teach a portion of the National Business Institute course, “Handling the Police Liability Claim. ” He will focus his presentation on common liability issues, including...
Cincinnati. August 11, 2014. Today the family of Gary Roell, Sr. filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit alleging that Hamilton County deputies unreasonably tased and fought with Mr. Roell, who suffered from mental illness and was...
Cincinnati, August 6th, 2014 – The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard three hours of arguments on appeals from district court decisions declaring bans on marriages between same-sex couples unconstitutional in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and...
Cincinnati, June 26, 2014. The family of Corey McGinnis has resolved its civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against the City of North College Hill, Ohio. Corey died after he was tased in the chest on June 26, 2012. The family has resolved...
Saturday, May 31, 2014. For the first year ever, Gerhardstein & Branch Co. LPA marched in the Cincinnati Pride Parade. The firm was joined by Newman & Meeks Co., LPA and many of the plaintiffs in the three pending cases attacking...
Cincinnati, Ohio: April 30, 2014: Six same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in federal court today seeking the right to marry in Ohio. Earlier this month, federal judge Timothy Black ordered Ohio to recognize marriages between same-sex couples...
Cincinnati, Ohio April 20, 2014. Al Gerhardstein appeared on WKRC Channel 12 Newsmakers program to discuss Gerhardstein & Branch’s litigation to end Ohio’s ban on marriages between same-sex couples.
Cleveland, Ohio. March 7, 2014. A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed today against Richland County jail officials who failed to treat Corey Tolar’s heroin withdrawal which resulted in his death on September 29, 2012. The lawsuit...
Columbus, Ohio January 29, 2014 “A case arising from the application of a Perry Township, Ohio Taser policy and Matthew Hook, a fleeing property crime suspect, has been resolved. On August 8, 2010, Matthew Hook was wanted for property...
