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Disbarred Ohio attorney Richard Louis Crosby III was arrested Thursday for allegedly creating aliases and using licensed lawyers' names to get jobs at three different law firms in Florida and Washington, D.C., while he was already facing charges for stealing client funds prior to his disbarment.

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday agreed to postpone class certification hearings in antitrust multidistrict litigation over cholesterol medication Lipitor after Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. told the court an unidentified attorney is "currently trapped in the war zone in Israel with no foreseeable way to get out."

A Buckeye State solo attorney was suspended Wednesday for two years with one year stayed after he allegedly aided in the unlicensed practice of law and neglected multiple clients' foreclosure cases to the point that four of those clients lost their homes, according to the Ohio Supreme Court's opinion.

Former Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment Tuesday following his conviction for bribery and attempted extortion for accepting campaign donations — in exchange for his vote on a development project — that were actually from undercover FBI agents.

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday agreed to postpone class certification hearings in antitrust multidistrict litigation over cholesterol medication Lipitor after Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. told the court an unidentified attorney is "currently trapped in the war zone in Israel with no foreseeable way to get out."

The Ohio Supreme Court rejected a Cleveland-area bar owner's suit over his unsuccessful attempt to place a local liquor regulation issue on Medina County's November election ballot, with the majority stating that the owner invoked the wrong law in his complaint and one justice saying in a dissent that he lacked standing anyway.

Pharmacy benefit managers OptumRX Inc. and Express Scripts Inc. called for the disqualification of the special master overseeing multidistrict litigation brought against the PBMs over the national opioid epidemic after he allegedly revealed a bias against them in an email they said he inadvertently sent as a "reply all."

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost asked a state court to jail the owner of a group of Cincinnati-area landscaping companies for what Yost called a "blatant disregard" of his and his companies' obligations under a September consent order to clean up a site where they had been unlawfully dumping waste.

A former Illinois insurance broker flipped his plea to guilty for a wire fraud charge brought against him for pocketing his clients' money for himself instead of buying annuities for them as he had promised, admitting to the fraud Friday more than two years after his initial plea of not guilty.

Cleveland-area private college Case Western Reserve University has agreed to "extensive reforms" to how it handles reports of sexual harassment, discrimination and assault as part of a settlement resolving the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into complaints about a purportedly hostile environment in the school's fraternity and sorority culture.