Civil Rights & Constitutional Law
Independence agrees to pay former police lieutenant nearly $1,000,000 over his First Amendment–retaliation claims
May 11, 2022
Independence, OH – The city of Independence, Ohio has agreed to pay Leonard Mazzola, a former City of Independence police lieutenant, nearly $1,000,000 for his First Amendment–
Continue ReadingChandra Law Firm managing partner Subodh Chandra with Nurse Gary Brack, whistleblower on inhumane Cuyahoga County jail conditions and failures of leadership Cleveland, OH – Everyone expects...
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond Youngstown, OH – Mahoning Prosecuting Attorney Paul Gains and Mahoning County will pay $550,000 to settle Desmond’s
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond Mahoning County, OH – Today, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals (sitting on assignment from the Sixth District)
Continue ReadingRebecca Corrigan Olmsted Township, OH – A settlement agreement requires Olmsted Township to pay the township’s administrator Rebecca Corrigan
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond Columbus, OH – Today, former Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Desmond filed a motion for sanctions against defense counsel for...
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond Last week, a State Personnel Board of Review (SPBR) hearing conducted by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) over Martin Desmond’s
Continue ReadingSean DeCrane Cincinnati, OH – In a major win for free speech and the public's right to know about government misconduct, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Cuyahoga County has finally settled an additional civil-rights lawsuit over its—and its corrections officers’, blatant disregard for the safety and well-being of jail inmates. Glenn Mayer, who in October 2019...
Continue ReadingTamir Rice Columbus, OH – Today, on behalf of Samaria Rice, The Chandra Law Firm LLC filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court') brief taking a...
Continue ReadingWe, as counsel for the mother and family of Tamir Rice, have asked United States Attorney General Merrick Garland to reopen the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's investigation into the conduct of the officers responsible for killing...
Continue ReadingBEREA, OH — The Berea Municipal Court will hold a hearing on March 5 to decide whether prosecutors can use Ohio’s stalking and telecommunications-harassment laws to put people in jail for leaving bad reviews about...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Yet another Cuyahoga County jail corrections officer is facing a lawsuit for an unjustifiable attack on an inmate. A lawsuit filed yesterday alleges that Jermaine Clements, a...
Continue ReadingTamir Rice Cleveland, OH – Today, counsel for the family of slain 12-year-old police-shooting victim Tamir Rice sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND — A federal judge has denied the City of Independence, Ohio’s bid to escape liability for forcing a decorated police officer out of his job after he spoke up about the former...
Continue ReadingCuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy Margaret Russo has ordered professional boxer Adrien Broner to appear in her courtroom today on the issue of whether he should be held in contempt for his “continued disregard and...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra today issued the following statement regarding the New York Times's report about apparent...
Continue ReadingColumbus, OH – Today, the Ohio State Bar Association Litigation Section awarded The Chandra Law Firm LLC the Best Brief Award for 2020 in the category of Private Briefs—those written and filed by private attorneys on behalf of private...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND — This evening, a federal judge ruled that Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s order limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county is unconstitutional. Specifically, the court...
Continue ReadingJohn Lewis being beaten on what become known as "Bloody Sunday," 1965, as he marched for the right to vote. Since 2006, I've litigated many times on behalf of nonpartisan voting-rights groups and...
Continue ReadingAdrien Broner. Professional boxer. Sexual-assault convict. Probation violator. CLEVELAND, OH – Today, professional-boxing former world champion Adrien Broner was remanded by Cuyahoga County...
Continue ReadingMichael Conway. Whistleblower to passenger-safety misconduct by officials in the Chicago Department of Aviation. CHICAGO, IL – Yesterday, Michael Conway, a 25-year veteran of Chicago’s...
Continue ReadingCincinnati, OH – On Friday, July 31, 49 former, high-ranking national-security officials submitted an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Continue ReadingRebecca Buddenberg COLUMBUS, OH – Today, the Supreme Court of Ohio unanimously rejected an effort by alleged perpetrators of...
Continue ReadingVideo of Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners's experience of First Amendment retaliation on May 14, 2019. Then-Mayor Brad Hartung had police drag her out of the City Council meeting and criminally charge her...
Continue ReadingCuyahoga County Corrections Officer Christopher Perdue attacks Tyrone Hipps. CLEVELAND, OH — Cuyahoga County Council is considering a resolution to approve a proposed settlement with a former...
Continue ReadingVideo of Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners enduring First Amendment retaliation on May 14, 2019. Then-Mayor Brad Hartung had police drag her out of the City Council meeting and criminally charge her...
Continue ReadingVideo of Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners enduring First Amendment retaliation on May 14, 2019. Huron, OH – Today—nearly 14 months after Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners's ordeal of...
Continue ReadingVideo of Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners enduring First Amendment retaliation on May 14, 2019. Huron, OH – Today—over 13 months after the ordeal of First Amendment retaliation and...
Continue ReadingVideo footage of the May 14, 2019 First Amendment retaliation against Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners Huron, OH – Today, a group of City of Huron taxpayers and civic activists—Stacey...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Today, Michael Roarty-Nugent filed a lawsuit in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas against Cuyahoga County, County Executive Armond Budish; former-Chief of Staff Earl Leiken;...
Continue ReadingSurveillance and body-cam video of Chatelle Glass being tortured at the Cuyahoga County jail, July 16, 2018. CLEVELAND, OH — Today, Chantelle Glass moved to amend her lawsuit...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH — Today, Huron activist Stacy Hinners and her husband, Jason, filed an amended lawsuit to block local personal-injury and DUI-defense lawyer
Continue ReadingThanks to the Supreme Court of Ohio's February 2020 majority decision in House v. Iocavelli, it's become substantially harder to bring a wrongful-termination-in-violation-of-public-policy claim in Ohio. So if your employer fires you for...
Continue ReadingINDEPENDENCE, OH — Today, local Independence, Ohio activist Mary Jane Horton filed a mandamus action with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Her suit alleges that Police Chief Michael Kilbane and the City...
Continue ReadingColumbus, OH – In a decision yesterday splitting along partisan lines, the Supreme Court of Ohio made it far more difficult to establish a claim for wrongful termination in violation of public policy. In House v. Iacovelli...
Continue ReadingChantelle Glass being tortured by Cuyahoga County corrections officers. CLEVELAND, OH — Today, Cuyahoga County corrections officer Corporal Idris-Farid Clark pleaded guilty to charges stemming...
Continue ReadingGary Brack, R.N. CLEVELAND, OH — Yesterday, Gary Brack, R.N.—former interim ambulatory-care director for the Cuyahoga County jail and
Continue ReadingChandra Law's founding and managing partner Subodh Chandra with Rep. John Lewis in 2011 at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland's annual meeting. Although we've been planning this fellowship for...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH – Today, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph D. Russo
Continue ReadingAdrien Broner describing on Instagram how his money grows on trees (@adrienbroner) Cleveland, OH – Today, professional boxer...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra sings about litigation-publicity ethics. On December 6, 2019, The Chandra Law Firm LLC's Subodh...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH—Today in federal court, Corrionne Lawrence, who three months ago filed a civil-rights complaint
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH — Yesterday, Huron activist Stacy Hinners filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit to block local
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Yesterday, Chariell Glaze filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas a civil-rights [updated December 19, 2019] complaint against Cuyahoga County and corrections officers...
Continue ReadingWill crime victims lose their long-established right to seek justice in civil courts? That’s the overarching issue argued before the Ohio Supreme Court by Chandra Law’s managing partner
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Tyrone Hipps attacked by Cuyahoga County Corrections Officer Christopher Perdue CLEVELAND, OH — On November 2, 2019, Tyrone Hipps, Jr. filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas a...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO— Leonard Mazzola, a long-time veteran of the Independence Police Department, today filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the City of Independence and three of its top...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Yesterday, Glenn Mayer, Jr. filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Conmon Pleas a civil-rights complaint against Cuyahoga County and corrections officer Darriell Hayes. The...
Continue ReadingHuron, OH – Today, the prosecutor handpicked by Huron law director Aimee Lane suddenly dismissed the
Continue ReadingYoungstown, OH – Today, a unanimous panel of Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals (sitting on assignment from the Sixth District)—handed a sweeping victory to former assistant Mahoning...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – The City of Cleveland has settled with 12 more of the peaceful protestors whose free-speech rights police violated outside of the 2016 Republican National Convention, paying each $50,000. This brings to...
Continue ReadingRebecca Buddenberg. She blew the whistle on Robert Weisdack. Cincinnati, OH – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit handed down a significant victory to former public-employee...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – The City of Cleveland has agreed to settle yet a third federal civil-rights lawsuit over its, and its officers’, First Amendment free-speech violations, false arrests, and malicious prosecution of peaceful...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH—On September 13, 2019, Corrionne Lawrence, who was formerly incarcerated at the Cuyahoga County jail, sued the County and six corrections officers in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. The complaint, available...
Continue ReadingSandusky, OH — Court documents reveal that on August 28, 2019, Judge Tygh Tone of the Erie County Court of Common...
Continue ReadingSeptember 6, 2019 – Today, Huron civic activist Stacy Hinners asked the City’s Municipal Court to dismiss the City of Huron’s
Continue ReadingToday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an unpublished opinion in a case entitled Siewertsen v. Worthington Industries, Inc....
Continue ReadingAugust 14, 2019 – Today, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that secret ballots violate the Open Meetings Act. Public officials cannot hide their votes from colleagues or constituents. In January 2015, Bratenahl Village’s council...
Continue ReadingApple pie, baseball, and the right to ridicule the government, Each holds an important place in American history and tradition. So thought Anthony Novak when he created a Facebook page to mock the Parma Police Department.
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – Today, Richard Newburger filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging that the City, Chief of Police Calvin Williams, Officer Matthew France, and other police officers violated...
Continue ReadingSurveillance footage and bodycam footage showing officers' torture of Chantelle Glass—and their indifference to...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH – In February 2019, Loronz Gray went to his local Boost Mobile retailer in Cleveland to buy a phone charger. At first blush, it was an ordinary encounter. Mr. Gray found the charger, paid the cashier for it, and left the...
Continue ReadingThe #MeToo movement empowers the victims of sexual harassment and abuse to come forward, and turn a public light on their abusers. As the movement progresses, it leads to more companies settling sexual-harassment-and-abuse...
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Supreme Court recently considered time limitations on actions for defrauding the federal government. Under the False Claims Act, the government or a private party may sue an individual for submitting a false claim to the federal...
Continue ReadingCincinnati, OH – Today, Subodh Chandra, lead counsel for Anthony Novak, engaged in oral argument in the Sixth Circuit against Parma police officer...
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Continue ReadingColumbus, OH – Today, commentator and comedian
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH — The City of Cleveland has agreed to pay Gregory Lee “Joey” Johnson $225,000 to settle
Continue ReadingStill images from media reports of Chantelle Glass being tortured with pepper spray by Cuyahoga County corrections officers. CLEVELAND — Today, a Cleveland...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH – Today, a Northeast Ohio woman sued professional boxer Adrien Broner for damages arising from a June 8, 2018 incident at The Park Social Lounge in Cleveland. Mr. Broner has a...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH — The lead attorney for city of Huron, Ohio civic activist Stacy Hinners,
Continue ReadingHuron, OH — The Chandra Law Firm LLC's investigation into retaliation by...
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Continue ReadingGary Brack, R.N., with his attorney Subodh Chandra, describes the inhumane jail conditions at Cuyahoga County's jail, the lives at risk, and the retaliation he faced from County Executive Armond Budish and...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH – Yesterday, Chandra Law Firm managing partner Subodh Chandra demanded that Huron, Ohio law director Aimee Lane immediately dismiss the unconstitutional criminal charges against Stacy Hinners. Hinners is a Huron activist and...
Continue ReadingHuron, OH – Showing no sense of shame or decency, Huron officials first doubled down, and then tripled and quadrupled down on their unconstitutional prosecution of Stacy Hinners, the local activist and mom who
Continue ReadingVIDEOS BELOW.HURON, OH — Last night, the city of Huron’s mayor, Brad Hartung, ordered police officers to seize and forcibly eject community activist Stacy Hinners from a city council meeting five minutes...
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, in a significant legal victory, a federal court
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Today, 26 African-American diners dismissed their race-discrimination suit captioned...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – The City of Cleveland has settled a federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by Steven Fridley alleging the City, police chief Calvin Williams, and several police officers violated Mr....
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH – Today, the City of Garfield Heights agreed to pay $80,000 in connection with Robert Spencer's federal civil-rights lawsuit...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH – Today the National Football League, Inc. (NFL) was sued by former NFL security officials—all former law-enforcement leaders—who allege the NFL cheated them out of...
Continue ReadingJust before the 2018 midterm elections, the Department of Health and Human Services leaked a memo from March 2018 about defining “sex” under federal law to restrict Americans to their designated gender at birth. Our...
Continue ReadingOhio’s Public Records Act, Ohio Rev. Code § 149.43, requires public offices to provide access to its records. Ohio’s “sunshine law” is among the most liberal in the nation, requiring that records be provided swiftly...
Continue ReadingDAYTON, OHIO — Today, Raymond Whitsel filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Cincinnati office alleging religious discrimination by Miami Valley North Hospital, which is owned by Premier...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – On Friday, October 5, the City of Cleveland agreed to pay whistleblower Abdul Malik-Ali an additional $425,000, plus increased wage compensation of $3,210 per year, to settle a federal...
Continue ReadingOn September 28, 2018, the Cuyahoga County Council passed an ordinance amending the county’s anti-discrimination policies to prohibit discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community. Effective October 27, 2018, it is illegal...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH — Today, 25 African-American women and men filed a civil lawsuit against Bahama Breeze Holdings, Inc. and two white managers, Frances Skupnik and Devin Jenkins, alleging race...
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond CLEVELAND, OHIO – Today, former assistant prosecuting attorney Martin Desmond earned a significant victory in his
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – Today, former assistant prosecuting attorney Martin Desmond earned a significant victory in his ongoing wrongful-termination and retaliation lawsuit against Defendants Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Gains, Chief...
Continue ReadingChandra Law Firm founding and managing partner Subodh Chandra has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 25th edition of Best Lawyers® in America (2019), for his civil-rights work. Chandra has also been named as an Ohio Super...
Continue ReadingComplaint alleges that white officers arrested a black man for joking with neighborhood children in his yard, falsely accused him of criminal threats, beat him, destroyed evidence of their misdeeds, and bragged about punishing his...
Continue ReadingDAYTON, OHIO – Yesterday, Joseph E. Cotterman, who served as Jackson Center's police chief from 2009 to 2016, filed a
Continue ReadingASHLAND, OHIO – Yesterday, former Ashland University student Jane Doe filed a federal civil lawsuit [UPDATE: amended 9/12/18] against Ashland University under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting educational institutions that receive...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – Yesterday, the federal judge presiding over the national opioid lawsuits (and recently profiled by The New York...
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO – Today, Martin Desmond, a former assistant prosecuting attorney in Mahoning County, filed a
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH – Yesterday, Plaintiff Sean DeCrane moved to disqualify the City of Cleveland's outside defense...
Continue ReadingRebecca Buddenberg CLEVELAND, OHIO – Yesterday, Rebecca Buddenberg, former fiscal coordinator for the Geauga County Health District, filed a First Amendment- and...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO – Today, Crystal Jones, a construction-equipment operator in the City of Cleveland’s Division of Waste Collection, filed a
Continue ReadingFormer Cleveland Fire Division Battalion Chief Sean DeCrane has filed a motion to add a constitutional challenge to two City of Cleveland policies in his
Continue ReadingPRESS CONFERENCE: Credentialed media only. January 11, 2018, 1:00 pm, at the Chandra Law Firm LLCThe Chandra Law Building1265 W. 6th Street, Suite 400Cleveland, OH 44113-1326 Cleveland, OH...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO―Today, Ramón Ortiz filed a lawsuit to enforce a public-records request to the City of...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra and Samaria Rice on MSNBC discussing Cleveland's pathetic discipline of the officers who killed Ms. Rice's son Tamir. Cleveland, OH―On October 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Subodh Chandra...
Continue ReadingAnthony Novak momentarily celebrates his August 11, 2016 jury acquittal after his criminal trial for mocking Parma police on Facebook. That was before reality set in: he realized that he could still be...
Continue ReadingBelieve it or not, Twitter has been around for more than a decade. With 328 million monthly active users as of April 2017, Twitter may be close to the point where...
Continue ReadingWashington, DC - Today, American Muslim commentator, radio host, and comedian Dean Obeidallah filed a defamation lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for...
Continue ReadingThe Ohio Supreme Court today ordered that Cleveland City Council under Council president Kevin Kelley's "leadership" must process...
Continue ReadingAmerican justice is built on the promise that anyone accused of a crime has a right to a fair trial. But with disturbing frequency, our criminal-justice system falls short of that bar. Recent local examples can be found in the...
Continue ReadingThe prestigious speaking forum the City Club of Cleveland has invited Corey Lewandowski to speak on August 3. While I believe that this invitation was...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Cleveland taxpayers Diane S. Bufford, Jennifer A. Blakeney, Verdia Y. Conner, Khalilah A. Worley, and Linda C. Robinson ("petitioners")
Continue ReadingManaging partner Subodh Chandra serves on the Ohio advisory committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Linked is the report of...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OH - Today, the Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County issued its ruling on the appeal in Cruz v. English Nanny & Governess School. The ruling affirms the trial victory for Plaintiffs Christina Cruz (a former...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Sabrina Robinson filed a civil complaint in federal court on behalf of her children, J.G. (age 17) and D.J. (age 12)...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO — Today, counsel for Cleveland taxpayers Diane S. Bufford, Jennifer A. Blakeney, Verdia Y. Conner, Khalilah A. Worley, and Linda C. Robinson
Continue ReadingOSHA findings CLEVELAND, OHIO - Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Continue ReadingIn his initial filings, Ali alleged that he was demoted from...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Cleveland Scene and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance have settled the
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - A complaint filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court today by Dalonte White alleges that the City of Cleveland and various...
Continue ReadingMartin Desmond CLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Martin Desmond, formerly an assistant prosecuting attorney for Mahoning County, filed a notice of appeal with the State Personnel Board of Review, challenging...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - A complaint filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by Euclid Media Group, parent company of local...
Continue ReadingYesterday, the Seventh Circuit sitting en banc (the entire court) issued a significant decision under Title VII reversing years of circuit precedent. Specifically, in
Continue Reading[UPDATED]The defendants in a class-action suit for fraud...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - A proposed amended complaint filed today in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas by three former...
Continue ReadingAkron, OH — A federal judge today rejected an attempt by a former Kent State University softball coach to avoid...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH — "Unacceptable." That is how Samaria Rice, the bereaved mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, described the mere...
Continue ReadingCleveland, Ohio - Today, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, joined by the...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Two years after his unceremonious removal from the Field-Maintenance Manager post at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, Mayfield Heights resident Abdul-Malik Ali today
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has informed the City of Cleveland that OSHA has determined that...
Continue ReadingCleveland, OH - Secretly recorded audio reveals Cleveland Hopkins International Airport airfield-maintenance manager Robert Henderson on January 19, 2017 excoriating his employees and threatening them with retaliation for whistleblowing safety...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - The Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority (RTA) has paid $45,000 to Jessica Ferrato, in settlement of her lawsuit for being unlawfully assaulted by now-former RTA police officer Jonathan Pacholke in March 2015 as she was...
Continue ReadingVia a letter from Subodh Chandra today, Abdul-Malik Ali, the former airfield maintenance manager at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, has alerted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Occupational Health & Safety Administration...
Continue ReadingEAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, the East Cleveland City School District board of education
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, counsel for John J. Murphy, a City of Kettering taxpayer,
Continue ReadingThe following is the opening text of an open letter just sent to...
Continue ReadingYesterday, the Ohio Supreme Court overturned its own precedent and issued a significant ruling for Ohioans seeking to challenge their convictions, and for Ohio public-records law generally. In
Continue ReadingToday, the Ohio Supreme Court held in favor of Chandra Law Firm client Jessica...
Continue ReadingCanton, OH ― In a victory for Ohio voters and the Ohio Constitution, Ohio 50th District State Representative Christina Hagan (R-Alliance) has belatedly resigned as a member of the presidential Electoral College. The Electoral College is slated...
Continue ReadingCanton, OH ― Chandra Law today served a
Continue ReadingDespite multiple claims and promises to afford the family appropriate "due process," the City of Cleveland continues to drag its feet in disciplining the officers involved. On November 22, 2014, Cleveland Police Officers Timothy Loehmann...
Continue ReadingSean DeCrane CLEVELAND, OHIO – Today, Sean DeCrane, a 25-year veteran of Cleveland's Division of Fire who retired last month, filed a civil lawsuit [UPDATED...
Continue ReadingIt's Election Day (Tuesday, November 8, 2016). You're excited and ready to go vote for your favorite candidates. And you live in Ohio―your vote couldn't be more important! It may decide the fate of all humanity. But you get to the polls...
Continue ReadingOn behalf of The Chandra Law Firm LLC posted in Civil rights on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. CLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, the Northeast Ohio Coalition...
Continue ReadingIn the early 2000s, iconic cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris underwent a "rebranding" that included a name change to "Altria."
Continue ReadingKENT, OHIO - Today, Lauren Kesterson, a senior at Kent State University, filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of Ohio asking it to order the University to provide public records about how it handled her rape report against a...
Continue ReadingToday, the Chandra Law Firm obtained a significant victory in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that will make it more difficult for defendants to engage in abusive litigation tactics against civil-rights plaintiffs and their counsel. In...
Continue ReadingLike all civilized human beings, we at Chandra Law mourn last week's horrifying deadly shootings of police officers in Dallas, Texas following a peaceful protest, and the police-shootings of innocent African-American civilians in St....
Continue ReadingConfidentiality provisions restricting the terms and amount of a settlement are standard in civil cases among private parties. With increasing frequency, however, defendants seek to negotiate broader restrictions that prohibit not only...
Continue ReadingOn April 26, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that public employers cannot retaliate against or punish employees for protected speech under the First Amendment. The decision, Heffernan v. City of Paterson, was unique...
Continue ReadingAnyone who has ever wondered whether 'tone deafness' is a real thing need look no further than the police union's leadership. Reflecting in a few breaths all that is wrong with Cleveland's police division, Steve Loomis managed to (1) blame the...
Continue ReadingThe City of Cleveland has agreed to payment of $6 million to settle the federal civil-rights lawsuit involving the tragic death of Tamir Rice. Although historic in financial terms, no amount of money can adequately compensate for the loss of a...
Continue ReadingTrial in the challenge brought by Plaintiffs Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, and the Ohio Democratic Party against state laws that are resulting in thousands of Ohio voters being disenfranchised...
Continue ReadingComplaint alleges officer arrested and assaulted Plaintiff without probable cause; RTA suspended officer and placed him on probation for "viola[ting] departmental procedures" and "fail[ing] to control the situation that led to an...
Continue ReadingThe Rice family is disturbed by the city's behavior. The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgment required for the city to send a bill-its own police officers having slain 12-year-old Tamir-is breathtaking. This adds insult to homicide. The...
Continue ReadingLauren Kesterson Complaint alleges ex-softball coach Karen Linder pressured Lauren Kesterson to keep quiet after she reported that she had been raped; when she...
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI, OHIO—Yesterday, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling last summer of U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells, of the Northern District of Ohio, that ordered Cleveland Police Officers Brian Kazimer and Dan...
Continue Reading"Combine this with McGinty's (1) failure to cross-examine the officers after they took the oath and gave self-serving testimony-a special gift no other investigative target would ever receive; (2) public release of biased and fatally flawed...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO—Today, Lucille Dumas, a Cuyahoga County, OH resident, filed a complaint in state court arising from a brutal attack she suffered at the hands of former Cuyahoga County Corrections Officer Madeline Chappell, while Dumas was...
Continue ReadingToday, more than a year after Cleveland police shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a grand jury voted not to indict the shooter. Tamir's family is saddened and disappointed by this outcome-but not surprised. It has been clear for...
Continue ReadingLetter to Timothy McGinty Enclosing the New Expert Reports
Continue ReadingRepresentatives of the mother, sister, and estate administrator of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy whom Cleveland police officers shot and killed in November 2014, wrote to the Department of Justice today formally requesting...
Continue ReadingJSA-Ltr-to-Timothy-McGinty-re-Recommendation-to-the-Grand-Jury-00234994x9CCC2.pdf
Continue ReadingProsecutor McGinty should recall the officers responsible for 12-year-old Tamir Rice's death back to the grand jury and vigorously cross examine them. Under the U.S. Supreme Court case
Continue ReadingLoomis was commenting on Chandra Law managing partner's aggressive advocacy for the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police:
Continue ReadingFor the prosecutor to allow police officers who are supposed to be targets of a criminal investigation to submit unsworn statements in response to grand-jury subpoenas requiring live testimony is yet again a stunning irregularity that further...
Continue ReadingToday, Samaria Rice and two of her children had the opportunity to tell a grand jury about the horror they experienced on November 22, 2014, when Cleveland police officers rushed upon and shot their beloved son and brother Tamir Rice.
Continue ReadingOn behalf of The Chandra Law Firm LLC posted in Civil rights on Saturday, November 28, 2015.
Continue ReadingCounsel for family of Tamir Rice note to prosecutor glaring flaws in third so-called expert report
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Charles Williams filed suit for disability discrimination against Cleveland Clinic-an internationally renowned health-care institution comprised of more than 3,200 physicians and scientists. A long-time Cleveland...
Continue ReadingCounsel for mother of Tamir Rice write Prosecutor McGinty objecting to his unwarranted smear of Ms. Rice; renew request that prosecutor recuse and appoint a special prosecutor-or if he refuses again, at least announce what his...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO — The bereaved mother of the late Tamir Rice, who was 12 years old when he was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers on November 22, 2014, will hold a press conference with her counsel to express dismay at the conduct of...
Continue Reading"The family now believes that the prosecutor's office has been on an 11-month quest to avoid providing that accountability. Any presentation to a grand jury-without the prosecutor advocating for Tamir-is a charade. To get so-called experts to...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Charlie J. Wilson, Jr. and Luis Reyes filed suit for racial harassment, wrongful discharge, and retaliation, against Gardner Denver Nash LLC-their former employer, service-center manager Rick Kushinski, human-resources...
Continue ReadingCounsel for the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police on November 22, 2014, have requested that the prosecutor seek a charge of aggravated murder. As explained in the linked letter to the prosecutor
Continue ReadingFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Hardiman, NAACP216.256.6544E-Mail: attyjhard@aol.com Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, Collaborative for a Safe, Fair, and Just Cleveland216.559.0909
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Chandra Law is honored to be a part of the new legal team of Samaria Rice, bereaved mother of Tamir Rice, as well as Tamir's sister, in their pursuit of justice. On November 22, 2014, a Cleveland police officer, Timothy Loehmann...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - The administrator of the Estate of Tamir Rice has engaged a new legal team as counsel that includes Subodh Chandra of The Chandra Law Firm LLC, and today sought federal-court substitution of this new team. Samaria Rice, Tamir...
Continue ReadingWednesday, June 17, 2015 Don't cover up child abuse. Or retaliate against anyone for reporting it FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Peter Pattakos-216.578.1700 (o) Peter DOT Pattakos AT...
Continue ReadingChandra Law has successfully resolved the sex discrimination, race discrimination, and retaliation claims of an Ohio Lottery Commission employee against the Commission...
Continue ReadingThe shooting shook Cleveland and the nation. CLEVELAND, OHIO—
Continue ReadingBhagirath Koirala. The presumption of innocence in American law exists for an important reason. Sometimes, people are falsely accused. PAINESVILLE, OHIO - Today, the Painesville Municipal Prosecutor moved and Judge Michael...
Continue ReadingComplaint alleges that Officer Brian Kazimer attacked child in August 2010 incident; City of Cleveland fails to discipline officers involved despite the contrary recommendation of its own Civilian Police Review Board CLEVELAND...
Continue ReadingDennis Berg, Director of the Ohio Lottery Commission under Governor John Kasich, has been accused of violating the United States Constitution by racial and gender discrimination against Giavonna (Gia) Evans. FOR...
Continue ReadingTrumbull County Engineer Randy Smith has been the subject of a vendetta by employees aligned with former Engineer David DeChristofaro, who resigned from office in disgrace in connection with a guilty plea for theft in...
Continue ReadingChandra Law can help you frame your Ohio public-records and federal Freedom of Information Act requests to avoid objections. And we can help you enforce your request. Under Ohio law, with very limited exceptions, government records are...
Continue ReadingPublic access to government records is a hallmark of a free society. The Chandra Law Firm regularly litigates public-records issues. Managing partner Subodh Chandra's experience with public-records issues arises from his experience as...
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has released a report finding that the City of Cleveland has been engaged in a pattern and practice of excessive-force violations Chandra Law, headed by former federal prosecutor and...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra has been sought out for commentary on the U.S. Department of Justice's report about police misconduct in Cleveland
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, OHIO—Today, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, and Ohio Democratic Party-successful plaintiffs in previous complaints to protect Ohioans' voting rights-filed a proposed Second...
Continue ReadingSandhya Gupta is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Princeton University. She worked at the New York City office of Arnold & Porter LLP before returning to her hometown of Cleveland. The Chandra Law Firm, LLC...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO - Today, Tina Barcklay, a former assistant account manager at The HMC Group, filed a civil lawsuit against The HMC Group, sales executive John Prologo, and co-owners and co-presidents James and Steven Scharfeld. Mrs. Barcklay, a...
Continue ReadingChandra Law Firm client, Professor Raymond Ku of Case Western Reserve University Law School, just appointed to the newly created Center for Cyberspace Law & Policy. The Chandra Law Firm has been honored, in...
Continue ReadingEAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - East Cleveland Board of Education member Dr. Patricia A. Blochowiak today filed a lawsuit charging violations of Ohio's Open Meetings Act against the East Cleveland Board of Education. Her suit seeks injunctive...
Continue ReadingPolice Officer punished after complaining of gender discrimination WOODMERE, OHIO - Former Woodmere police officer Erin Thomas today filed a lawsuit charging discrimination, retaliation, and other claims against the Village of...
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Continue ReadingEarlier in this blog, we linked to news reports that Defendant Lawrence Mitchell, accused of retaliation by a client of the Chandra Law Firm, had resigned from the deanship of Case Western Reserve University's School of Law. Commentary on...
Continue ReadingCase Western Reserve University's Law School Dean, Lawrence Mitchell, has resigned. The resignation follows a lawsuit filed by The Chandra Law Firm on behalf of Professor Raymond Ku. The suit alleges that Mitchell retaliated against Ku...
Continue ReadingDean and Defendant Lawrence Mitchell of Case Western Reserve University resigns, following the Chandra Law Firm's filing of a lawsuit on behalf of Professor Raymond alleging retaliation, for Ku's reporting, as associate dean, alleged sexual...
Continue ReadingIf you have information for the lawyers seeking to help the students in this case, please contact our office at 216.578.1700. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Subodh Chandra or Donald P. Screen 216.578.1700 (o)
Continue ReadingChandra Law today filed suit to vindicate the rights of Professor and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Raymond Ku. Suit was filed against Dean...
Continue ReadingClients' cases, done right, require a great investment of time and resources. We won't compromise the effort required. Linked is an article from "The Federal Lawyer" by Subodh Chandra reflecting our firm's philosophy on the effort...
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, OHIO — Over Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's opposition, Plaintiffs Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, and Ohio Democratic Party have filed a motion asking Judge Algenon Marbley of...
Continue ReadingChandra Law Firm Managing Partner Subodh Chandra was appointed today to serve on the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. "I am honored to have the opportunity to advise the Commission on shaping...
Continue ReadingAKRON, OHIO - An Akron federal judge on Friday gave his blessing to a global settlement reached in two class-action lawsuits filed against the Akron Beacon Journal, as well as its foreign owners and certain officers, on...
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND, OHIO — Today, nine Cleveland-area physicians who provide health care to poor patients through the Medicaid program, and were blocked by state law from expressing their support for then-Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray in his...
Continue ReadingThe Chandra Law Firm, LLC has been working to protect Ohioans' right to vote from voter-suppression efforts since 2006. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline Gentry (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur) 937.449.6748 (o);...
Continue ReadingWe won another important victory for voting rights, which are under increasing assault. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline H. Gentry (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur) 937.449.6748 (o); 937.287.8983 (m); or
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Continue ReadingWARREN, OHIO — Yesterday, Vincent Davila, Sr., a Niles resident, filed a lawsuit against Trumbull County Engineer David DeChristofaro seeking DeChristofaro's removal from office for misconduct. The suit alleges that DeChristofaro used the...
Continue ReadingI serve as vice-chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Judicial Selection Committee. That committee is part of a coalition of bar associations that rate judicial candidates for the website
Continue ReadingThe doctors want to contribute to Ohio's pro-health-insurance-reform attorney general Richard Cordray, but Ohio law bans them from doing so. CLEVELAND, OHIO — Today, nine Cleveland-area physicians who provide...
Continue ReadingAKRON, OHIO - An Akron Beacon Journal retiree today filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to force Canadian media mogul David Holmes Black and the newspaper to restore promised...
Continue ReadingRetirees notch win against Black Press: Court orders Canadian publisher to reinstate original terms of medical coverage agreed in buyout deals with former employees of Ohio...
Continue ReadingAKRON, OHIO—U.S. District Judge David Dowd today issued a preliminary injunction against the Akron Beacon Journal and Canadian media mogul David Holmes Black, ordering them to restore prescription-drug benefits to retirees. He also...
Continue ReadingToday, our efforts saved the career of a Dayton psychiatrist whose license a hearing examiner recommended be suspended for alleged charting deficiencies. After hearing our oral argument, the Board disagreed with the...
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Continue ReadingFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Subodh Chandra 216.578.1700 (o); 216.965.6463 (m); or Subodh.Chandra AT ChandraLaw.com AKRON, OHIO - Today, retirees from the Akron Beacon Journal filed a federal class-action lawsuit against...
Continue ReadingI filed a complaint today against "birther" attorney Orly Taitz with the State Bar of California.
Continue ReadingLawyers do not have the right to criticize the performance of the courts before which we appear. The right to free speech is the fountainhead of all of our other rights. If the judicial branch is free from criticism from those...
Continue ReadingFollowing the Chandra Law Firm's $2,000,750 verdict in December 2008, the Village of Woodmere and Mayor Yolanda Broadie finally settled the case with former Village Police Chief LaMont Lockhart. Here are the key terms: Mayor...
Continue ReadingLaMont Lockhart Retaliating against anyone for opposing discrimination not only violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Ohio's Civil Rights Act, it violates the First Amendment to the...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra, leads his triplet sons and voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the nonpartisan...
Continue ReadingSubodh Chandra receives a generous after-dinner toast from renowned litigator David Boies of Bush v. Gore fame during Chandra's...
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