In April, Marianna presented a Continuing Judicial Education Lecture in Columbus on “The Top Ten Cases of the Ohio Supreme Court in 2012,” to a group of retired Ohio judges. Marianna also arranged a meeting between two staffers from the Ohio Justice and Policy Center and Ohio State Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, which Marianna also attended, to discuss and ensure inclusion in the Continuing Judicial Education presentations of a segment on understanding the CIVICC (Civil Impacts of Criminal Convictions under Ohio Law) data base.
Marianna gave another presentation in UC Law’s new Practicum series, which watches and discusses Ohio Supreme Court arguments. The presented case, Sondra Anderson v. Barclays Capital Real Estate Inc., d.b.a. Home EqServicing, considers the question of whether mortgage servicers are covered under Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act. Joining Marianna was Kevin Flynn, adjunct professor of real estate law (and father of rising 2L Kevin Flynn).
Marianna joined several colleagues in UC Law’s second annual “speed mentoring” events, sponsored by the Center for Career Development, for students to discuss career plans with various faculty members.
Additionally, Marianna arranged for UC Law alum Scott Knox to serve as the Spring 2013 semester’s Harris Distinguished Practitioner. At his presentation to a packed house of law students, Mr. Knox discussed his rich, rewarding, and inspirational career. Knox’s practice focuses on disability, AIDS, probate, estate, and LGBT issues.
As usual, Marianna’s generated several posts on her Legally Speaking Ohio blog, where she covered the following topics in April:
- Oral argument previews and analyses
- Immunity for doctors working for a state medical center and a private corporation
- Medical negligence fundamentals
- Does a gubernatorial pardon guarantee the sealing of records of conviction
- The constitutionality of the picketing notice requirement of the Ohio Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act
- A Landlord’s duty to a tenant’s guest in a common area
- Determining the scope of recreational immunity
- More Crawford issues
- Analysis of merit decision
- Estate of Johnson v. Randall Smith, Inc., Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-1507: R.C. 2317.43, Ohio’s apology statute, applies to any cause of action filed after September 13, 2004, its date of enactment
Finally, Marianna published “Sports Torts” in her monthly Legally Speaking column in The American Israelite, as well as a column in the Cincinnati Herald (subsequently picked up in the Ohio Supreme Court daily news clips) titled, “What’s In a Name?”.