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Rebecca Masevice v. Life Insurance Company of North America
Cleveland, Ohio employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an E.R.I.S.A. violation theory. Federal Courthouse - Cleveland, Ohio ...
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( 03-16-2023 - OH)

United States of America v. Seth Calig
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer reported Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit arson related to the destruction of a parking booth during the May 30, 2020, demonstrations and civil unrest in downtown Cleveland. ...
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( 02-23-2023 - OH)

Thomas Fox v. American Family Insurance Company
Cleveland, Ohio insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach of contract theory claiming more than $75,000 in damages as a result of the Defendant's wrongful conduct. ...
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( 02-12-2023 - OH)

Brooks and Mika Jones v. Mary Lynne Newsome and Paul Schamb
Cleveland, Ohio civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on nuisance theories claiming that they were being adversely impacted by the outdoor pizza owned owned and used by the Defendants. ...
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( 02-03-2023 - OH)

Lisa Greger v. Commissioner of Social Security
Cleveland, Oho social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for SSID benefits by HHS. MoreLaw Legal News For Cleveland ...
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( 01-26-2023 - OH)

United States of America v. DeWayne Taylor
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers, brandishing a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and brandishing a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.  MoreLaw Legal News...
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( 01-25-2023 - OH)

United States of America v. Adolphus Philpot
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. MoreLaw Legal News For Cleveland On March 26, 2021, Adolphus Philpot, age 36, from Maple, Ohio...
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( 01-06-2023 - OH)

United States of America v. Solomon Odubajo
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in a drug trafficking conspiracy that sought to distribute and possess over 1 kilogram of fentanyl tablets designed to look like oxycodone pills in the Northern Ohio area. MoreLaw Legal News For Clevala...
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( 12-01-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Larry Dayton
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS in connection with his ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses in the Canton, Ohio area. From 2009 through 2018, Larry Dayton, along with other co-conspirators, owned and operated two illegal gambling businesses, Skilled Shamrock and Redemption. As part of his guilty plea, ...
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( 11-22-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Martino Jamel Andrews
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit arson. On May 30, 2020, Martino Jamel Andrews, 24, and others sought to vandalize and set fire to a van owned by the Cuyahoga County Division of Public Works near the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland following a demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
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( 11-07-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Martino Jamel Andrews
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit arson in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. On May 30, 2020, Martino Jamel Andrews, 24, and others sought to vandalize and set fire to a van owned by the Cuyahoga County Division of Public Works near the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland following a demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in...
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( 11-07-2022 - OH)

Mary Stewart v. Matthew Rhodes
Cleveland, Ohio personal injury wrongful death lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an excessive force civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Plaintiff claimed that that Office Matthew Rhodes wrongfully shot and killed Luke Stewart, age 23, while investigating a Black man sleeping in a car. Rhodes did not have his dash-cam or his flashlight on when he...
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( 11-02-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Daniel Joseph Kitlak
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with receipt and distribution of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2252, which provides: (a) Any person who— (1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affec...
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( 10-11-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Tywon D. Cason
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Without the reduction, Cason’s advisory Guidelines range became 100 to 125 months. The court varied downward based on Cason’s difficult childhood and mental health challenges, imposing concurrent 96-month sentences on both counts of conviction. Because the 96-month...
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( 09-27-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Luis Hernandez Socarras and Jorge Hernandez Socarras
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a nationwide scheme in which they fraudulently gained access to approximately 2,366 AT&T mobile accounts. From March 2019 to January 2020, Luis Hernandez Socarras and Jorge Hernandez Socarras, both age 27, were part of a nationwide scheme in which they fraudulently gained access to approximately 2,366 ...
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( 09-26-2022 - OH)

State of Ohio v. Armond A. Johnson
Cleveland, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated murder. Armand Johnson was accused for killing her ex-girlfriend, her 2-year-old daughter, their six-year-old son and a neighbor in July 2019. ...
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( 09-02-2022 - OH)

Debra Buckosh v. Bonded Filter Company, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on breach of contract and other theories. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Bonded is a preventative maintenance service provider for commercial heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (“HVAC”) systems. (Buckosh Dep., Doc. No. 46-4 at PageID 835-36; Ashwood Dec., Doc. No. 46-2 at PageID 802....
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( 08-25-2022 - OH)

State of Ohio v. James Dowdell, III
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with "two counts of first-degree felony drug trafficking, two counts of first-degree felony drug possession, and one count of fifth-degree felony drug possession." {¶ 1} Appellant, the state of Ohio (the "state"), appeals the trial court's decision not to impose an indefinite sentence upon defendant-appellee, Jam...
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( 08-25-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Charles E. Smith, Jr.
Cleveland, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with using stolen financial information to purchase gasoline. From May 2019 through May 2020, Charles E. Smith, Jr., age 52, from Woodmere, Ohio, the former Mayor of Woodmere, Ohio, purchased stolen credit and debit card account information, including account numbers and addresses, from the dark web. Smith then used a credit ...
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( 08-25-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Martin Escobar
Cleveland, Ohio criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with prescribing controlled substances—including two counts of distributing controlled substances that caused the deaths of two patients and one count of distributing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21—and 31 counts of health care fraud. Martin Escobar, age 58, a former Mahoning County physician, rep...
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( 08-04-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Devonte L. Fellow
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distributing fentanyl that led to the death of a Cuyahoga Falls individual. In April 2019, detectives with the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department began an investigation into the overdose death of an individual found unresponsive in a Cuyahoga Falls residence. During the investigation, authorities recovered from the ...
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( 07-06-2022 - OH)

Osso-Ovch Axp v. Todd Maxwell, et al.
Cleveland, Ohio civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a trademark infringement theory. The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home/Ohio Veterans' Children's Home (hereinafter the “OSSO/OVCH Home” or “Home”) was a children's home located in Xenia, Ohio. (Id. at ¶ 10.) The OSSO/OVCH Home officially closed its doors to incoming students...
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( 06-24-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Joseph A. Cipolletti
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud and false statement under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding. The former Vice President of Discovery Tours Inc., a business located in Mayfield Village, Ohio, that offered educational trips for grade school and high school students, pleaded guilty to devising a scheme to take p...
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( 06-16-2022 - OH)

Judy Fulkerson v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America
Cleveland, Ohio employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful denial of employee benefits. Daniel Tymoc died in a car crash while speeding and driving recklessly. Tymoc's mother, Judy Fulkerson, pursued accidental death benefits under Tymoc's life insurance policy, issued by Unum Life Insurance Company. Unum, however, denied those benefits, invoki...
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( 06-03-2022 - OH)

State of Ohio v. Joseph McAlpin
Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping, robbery and murder. Joseph McAlpin, was charged with kidnapping, robbing, and murdering Michael Kuznik and Trina Tomola at their used-car business in Cleveland in 2017. At his trial by jury, McAlpin waived his right to counsel and represented himself. McAlpin was found guilty of all charged offense...
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( 05-12-2022 - OH)

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