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Baldwin's Ohio Employment Practices Law

New features and recent developments in this edition include:

• The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the existence of a "ministerial exception" to employment discrimination laws. See Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C., 132 S. Ct. 694, 181 L. Ed. 2d 650, 274 Ed. Law Rep. 774 (2012), discussed in § 2:17.

Avoiding and Defending Wrongful Discharge Claims

These chapters have been revised in the 2012 edition:

• Newly revised chapter 7, Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.
• Newly revised chapter 21, Defenses and Counterclaims.

Baldwin's Ohio School Law (2011-2012)

New features and recent developments in this update include:

• New coverage of science, technology, engineering and mathematics schools (see § 4:11.50), and college preparatory boarding schools (see § 4:11.70).
• An entirely updated Chapter 10, covering teachers' compensation, fringe benefits, and leave.
• New coverage of the training of board of education members and personnel (see § 5:28.50)

Equitable Distribution of Property 3d

New features and recent developments in the 2011-2012 supplement include:

• Discussion and criticism of new New York statute adopting a mandatory perliminary injunction against dissipation. (§ 3:8)
• Extensive new discussion of the effect of orders making an early division of marital property, and of procedural issues arising when early division is requested. (§ 3:9)
• Treatment of virtual assets -- accounts and characters in online games -- as divisible property. (§ 5:10)
• Classification of employment discrimination verdicts and settlements. (§ 6:54)
• More on verbatim or nearly-verbatim adoption of proposed findings and orders. (§ 8:3)
• Effect of changing market conditions on an order of sale which specifies a listing price (§ 9:14)

Ohio Domestic Violence Law 2011-2012

A new Chapter 20 discussing the new authority of juvenile courts to hear petitions for protective orders against children, to determine whether a civil protection order should issue against a juvenile respondent, and to enforce a protection order issued, or consent agreement approved, against a juvenile respondent.

Ohio Sentencing HB 86 Questions & Review

"At once being described as landmark legislation being the first substantive revision & updating of Ohio sentencing law in 15 years, recently enacted HB 86 has also generated its share of concern, apprehension, and confusion as well – So much so that the General Assembly and Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission are being reported as being in the process of weighing those changes even as the corrections overhaul goes into effect."  Hamiton County Law Library Blog.

A review of the issues and useful links are found on the Hamilton Couty Law Library Blog.