Court Filings

The Appellate Division suspended attorney Adam Kalish for three years after confirming a Special Referee's findings that he misappropriated client funds held in his escrow (trust) account and engaged in conduct reflecting adversely on his fitness as a lawyer. The Grievance Committee brought a formal disciplinary proceeding based on a large shortfall in Kalish's escrow account. The court sustained two of three charges, rejecting one, and concluded Kalish abdicated his fiduciary responsibilities by allowing investor funds to pass through his trust account without adequate safeguards, failing to investigate or promptly report problems, and relying on an outside referrer despite his knowledge of ethical obligations.

The First District Court of Appeals reviewed two juvenile cases against T.B. after police stopped him and three companions for jaywalking and found a handgun on his person following a frisk. The court affirmed the juvenile court’s denial of suppression and the concealed-weapons adjudication, concluding the frisk was supported by reasonable, articulable suspicion, the gun was properly authenticated, and was shown operable. But the court reversed the jaywalking adjudication because the juvenile court abused its discretion by implicitly denying T.B.’s timely pre-disposition motion to withdraw his plea without explanation. The matter was remanded for withdrawal of the jaywalking plea.

The Ohio Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part James Quinn’s mandamus request to compel Judge Douglas Rastatter to rule on filings in Quinn’s 2014 criminal case. Quinn had filed a petition for postconviction relief and a combined motion for leave to file a new-trial motion plus the new-trial motion itself in April 2024. Because the trial judge later denied the postconviction petition, the Court denied that part of the writ as moot. The Court held the judge must rule on the motion for leave to file a new-trial motion (Crim.R. 33(B)) but denied relief as to the substantive new-trial motion because the rules require the motions be decided sequentially.