Dimora s bid for clemency went unanswered by Trump before he left office last month. Author: Phil Trexler Updated: 4:49 PM EST February 8, 2021
CLEVELAND
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Jimmy Dimora, the former Cuyahoga County commissioner now serving 28 years for political corruption, is taking his bid for a new trial to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Attorneys for Dimora filed a motion Monday asking the Supreme Court to accept his appeal. The court selects only a fraction of the cases that apply and fewer than 10 percent of such filings are accepted for a full review.
A decision on whether the Supreme Court will accept the case isn’t expected for several months.
Convicted former oncologist Farid Fata s latest appeal pursuing a release from prison or a sentence reduction on compassionate grounds has been dismissed by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judges in the appellate federal court, located in Cincinnati, turned down Fata s appeal Thursday. Fata had appealed last year s denial by a judge in the Eastern District of Michigan. High-profile inmates at both federal and state prisons have been requesting releases after the coronavirus was detected in the United States and in Michigan in mid-March.
In denying Fata, a three-judge panel of Martha Craig Daughtrey, David McKeague and Amul Thapar for the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court dismissed Fata s request, ruling he had not complied with a federal deadline when he originally filed the request with the lower U.S. District Court.
A Michigan law banning out-of-state retailers from shipping wine directly to Michigan consumers will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal
US appeals court blocks Lucas County health order that would keep religious schools closed amid pandemic
On Dec. 7, the Ohio Christian Education Network filed suit against the health department. The group had previously urged the health commissioner to rescind the order Author: Jenson Strock Updated: 8:26 PM EST December 31, 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday blocking the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department from enforcing its public health order which shuttered in-person learning for students in 7-12 grades as it applies to several religious schools that had sued the health department.
On Dec. 7, lawyers for the Ohio Christian Education Network filed suit against the health department. The group had previously urged Lucas County Health Commissioner Eric Zgodzinski to rescind the order, calling it unconstitutional.