On March 1, Marianna participated in UC Law’s Downtown Teach-In, where she presented on recent cases from the Ohio Supreme Court.

As she does every year, Marianna organized UC Law’s Judge-In-Residence program, which this March featured Hon. Greg Frost of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  To read more about the mission and history of UC Law’s Judge-In-Residence program, click here.

Marianna was invited to attend the Portrait Unveiling ceremony of Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Marianna chaired the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Committee for the region encompassing Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, which awarded scholarships in March to one college junior from each of those states for their demonstrated commitment to public service work.

In her Legally Speaking Ohio blog, Marianna posted in March on the following:

• Oral Argument Previews – on ordering restitution as part of a plea bargain, and regulatory takings;
• Oral Argument Analyses – on firing a teacher for teaching creationism in science class; due process Concerns over restitution order; class action certification; sovereign immunity and employer intentional torts; and filing suit under a pseudonym in a sex abuse case; and
• Merit Decision Analysis – on State v. Darmond, Slip Opinion 2013-Ohio-966, requiring the least severe sanction for a discovery violation applies to the state as well as to the defense.

Also in March, Marianna published “Religion and intelligent design in science class?”  in her monthly Legally Speaking column in The American Israelite.