Sanctions Granted After Ohio Health Care Workers Dismiss COVID-19 Vaccine Suit

Mealey's (September 28, 2022, 9:13 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Kentucky attorney and his law firm “abuse[d] . . . the judicial system” and “engag[ed] in confessed judge shopping” by dismissing and refiling claims on behalf of health care workers challenging Ohio hospital systems’ COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a federal judge in Ohio ruled, granting motions by the defendants for sanctions and attorney fees and enjoining the firm from filing or refiling any related action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio without “a certification from an attorney in good standing, and who has no affiliation with Deters Law, stating that the filing or refiling of the suit is not the product of forum- or judge-shopping and is not brought for any dilatory or otherwise improper purposes.”...