M.R. v. NIESEN

No. 2020-1131.

193 N.E.3d 548 (2022)

167 Ohio St.3d 404

2022-Ohio-1130

M.R., a Cincinnati Police Officer, Appellee, v. NIESEN et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gottesman & Associates, L.L.C., and Zachary Gottesman ; Cincinnati, and Crehan & Thumann, L.L.C., and Robert J. Thumann , for appellee.

Laursen & Mellott, L.L.C., and Erik W. Laursen , for appellant Julie Niesen.

Kinsley Law Office and Jennifer M. Kinsley , Cincinnati, for appellant Terhas White.

Stagnaro, Saba & Patterson Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey M. Nye , Cincinnati, urging reversal for amici curiae law professors Jonathan Entin, David F. Forte, Andrew Geronimo, Raymond Ku, Stephen Lazarus, Kevin Francis O'Neill, Margaret Christine Tarkington, Aaron H. Caplan, and Eugene Volokh; National Writers Union; Society of Professional Journalists; NewsGuild-CWA; Euclid Media Group; First Amendment Lawyers Association; and Institute for Free Speech.

Frantz Ward, L.L.P., Thomas G. Haren , Westlake, and Gregory R. Farkas , Cleveland, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Coalition for Open Government, Ohio News Media Association, and Ohio Association of Broadcasters.


{¶ 1} A common pleas court issued a temporary restraining order ("TRO") prohibiting Julie Niesen, Terhas White, and others from publishing the personal identifying information of Ryan Olthaus, a Cincinnati police officer. We are asked to decide whether a speech-restraining...

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