Prominent Watergate figure, John Dean, commented on the Finney Law Firm case, Susan B. Anthony List v. Ohio Elections Commission presently before the United States Supreme Court.
Read it here: http://verdict.justia.com/2014/05/02/stop-eviscerating-campaign-rules
The Finney Law Firm was contacted early this year by a group of landlords owning single family homes in the City of Mt. Healthy.
The City had begun a mandatory rental registration and inspection program for single family homes. While the City fathers invariably thought the intrusive and expensive program was a good idea, as a matter of law it imposed a scheme of warrantless searches in violation of the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Finney Law Firm filed suit in early April. Within days, the City of Mt. Healthy announced it was suspending enforcement of the Ordinance and within weeks Council met and formally repealed the offending Ordinance.
Our clients remain concerned with the constitutionality of the replacement legislation, and will continue to pursue that through conclusion, but we are pleased our public interest litigators addressed this unconstitutional action so quickly and decisively.
Like your business, the Finney law Firm has a business plan — to grow our services to meet your needs both in volume of service delivery as well as breadth of practice areas.
In March, Chris Ragonisi — an experienced labor and employment attorney — agreed to become “of counsel” to our firm to serve this area of need for our clients.
In April, Brad Gibson, a gifted commercial and public interest litigator signed on as a litigation associate.
Finally, to accommod
ate this growth, we had to add two new offices and a wing for more paralegals. The build-out has begun!
We are excited to bring these professionals along to meet our clients’ needs.
And, we have more announcements coming soon!
There is a blog devoted to extensive coverage of the United States Supreme Court — the SCOTUS blog. Its objective, in-depth and scholarly writing draws positive reviews from court watchers.
Today it has an extensive blog post on our case that is being heard next Tuesday before the United States Supreme Court.
Today’s Columbus Dispatch tells the chilling tale of citizen criminally convicted — and sustained on appeal — for the crime of engaging in political speech in Ohio. Read full article >
The below post was made shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court accepted review of Susan B. Anthony List v. Ohio Elections Commission on January 10, 2014.
Since that time, the Supreme Court decided in our favor 9-0 (in an opinion authored by Clarence Thomas) in the Susan B. Anthony List case on June 16, 2014 and in COAST Candidates PAC v. Ohio Elections Commission on June 23, 2014. Read about those wins here, here and here.
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It was a momentous event for our brand new law firm.
Within ten days of our formal launch in January of 2014, the United States Supreme Court granted one of its few writs of certiorari to our client, the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), to review a 2013 decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. COAST and the Susan B. Anthony List are challenging the jurisdiction of the Ohio Elections Commission to judge and punish claimed claimed false statements made during the course of political campaigns. At the request of the state of Ohio, both the trial court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case without considering the merits.
The case has been written about extensively in national publications. Read here, here, here, and here.
To illustrate the difficulty of getting before the Court, during its current term, US Supreme Court will grant discretionary review of fewer than 100 of more than 10,000 applications The vast majority of litigators will spend their entire careers without ever having a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Finney Law Firm is committed to vigorous representation of our clients, including challenging the authority of government actors to enforce laws that violate the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions, or are otherwise illegal. This important case is an example of that aggressive approach our attorneys undertake with zeal.
We expect to have a decision by the end of June.
We are proud of the team we have built, the service we provide and the results we deliver.
New York Times’ Adam Liptak covers the SBA List/COAST case at the US Supreme Court.