News & Legal Updates

Last month the Ohio Supreme Court appeared to have settled a question as to whether public bodies found to have violated the Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22 — the statute that generally requires public bodies to deliberate and make decisions out in the open — may cure their violations by simply redoing in the open what they failed to do in the first place.

The Ohio Senate continues to consider whether to adopt a measure advanced nearly unanimously by the Ohio House that would authorize many public bodies to conduct meetings virtually.

The Ohio Supreme Court determined that a township’s mailing and email lists, used for the purposes of distributing newsletters to residents and businesses, were subject to the Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43

Though the Online Safety Amendment is clearly not the first attempt by a nation to combat and restrict the use of social media by minors, this law stands apart from previous attempts by setting the minimum age of social media use to 16, the highest minimum age set by any country to date, and by omitting any exemptions for ‘grandfathered-in’ existing minor social media users or for obtainment of parental consent

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) which requires U.S. reporting companies to report beneficial owner information to the U.S. Treasury. 

The United Nations General Assembly is set to enter their final vote to approve the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime in December of 2024.