SAWICKI, JOSEPH F. (18 Mar. 1881-30 Oct. 1969), lawyer, politician, and judge, was born in Gorzno, Poland to Peter and Bogumila Jurkowska Sawicki, immigrated with his family to Cleveland when he was 5, and worked his way through St.
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SHAPIRO, EZRA ZELIG (7 May 1903-14 May 1977), attorney, Jewish community leader, and international Zionist figure, was born in Volozhin, Poland, to Esther (Brudno) and Rabbi Osias Shapiro. He was brought to Cleveland by his parents in 1906 and received his Jewish education in CLEVELAND HEBREW SCHOOLS.
SIDLO, THOMAS L. (10 Mar.
SIEGEL, RICHARD H. (21 Dec. 1935-31 Aug. 1993) was a Cleveland attorney whose civic activism included included the establishment of the alternative newspaper the CLEVELAND FREE TIMES. A native Clevelander, son of Dr.
SILBERT, SAMUEL H. (15 Apr. 1883-18 Feb. 1976), lawyer and long-time common pleas court judge, was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to Joseph and Nurious (Brook) Silbert. He came to Newark, N.J. at 6 with his widowed mother and worked selling newspapers and in an ink factory. By 16, Silbert was a state champion amateur boxer. Moving to Denver, he worked as a train news butcher before coming to Cleveland in 1902.
SPANGENBERG, CRAIG (18 Feb. 1914-17 March 1998), nationally known as a premier trial lawyer, founded and served as the first president of the International Society of Barristers and was past president of the CITY CLUB and CUYAHOGA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION. Spangenberg was born in Yonkers, N.Y. to Albert F.
The SPIETH, BELL, MCCURDY & NEWELL CO., LPA, is a law partnership located in the Huntington Bldg. at EUCLID AVE. and E. 9th St. Incorporated in 1975, Spieth Bell dates to 1867, when the law partnership of Mix & Noble opened at 150 Superior Ave. In 1870 Mix & Noble became Mix, Noble & White when JOHN G.
SQUIRE, ANDREW (21 Oct. 1850-5 Jan. 1934), corporation lawyer who planned the organizational structure of numerous companies, was born in Mantua, Ohio to Andrew Jackson and Martha Wilmot Squire, graduated from Hiram College in 1872 with the LL.B. degree, and came to Cleveland with a letter of introduction from Congressman JAS. GARFIELD.
SQUIRE, SANDERS AND DEMPSEY, born out of a partnership formed in 1890, is a Cleveland-based law firm with a national reputation in corporate and municipal law. One of the few major local law firms operating under its original name, in 1994 its practice included international, environmental, labor, and public LAW.
STAGE, CHARLES WILLARD (26 Nov. 1868-17 May 1946) was a lawyer active in civic affairs and politics who became Cleveland's first utilities director under the HOME RULE charter.
STARKWEATHER, SAMUEL (27 Dec. 1799-5 July 1876), lawyer, judge, and mayor of Cleveland, was born in Pawtucket, R.I., son of Oliver and Miriam (Clay) Starkweather. He worked on a farm, graduated from Brown College in 1822, and tutored at Brown until 1824, when he left to study law with Judge Swift in Windham, Conn.
TAFT, KINGSLEY ARTER (19 July 1903-28 March 1970) was a Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court between 1948-1962, and Chief Justice, between 1963-1970. An astute student of the law, Taft's judicial career was marked by the establishment of the Ohio Judicial Conference, and the adoption of the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure in 1970.
TAYLER, ROBERT WALKER (26 Nov. 1852-26 Nov. 1910), U.S. federal judge and author of the Tayler Grant ending Cleveland's traction war and regulating the reorganized street railways, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to Robt. Walker and Louisa Maria Woodbridge Tayler, and spent 3 years at Georgetown University before entering Western Reserve University Law School, earning the LL.D. degree in 1872.
TERRY V. OHIO was a landmark decision in the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court ruled that under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, a police officer may stop a suspect on the street and frisk him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonab
THOMPSON, HINE has practiced LAW for over 100 years. Beginning with its principal office in Cleveland, the firm expanded, opening offices in Washington, DC; Palm Beach, FL; Dayton, Cincinnati, and Columbus, OH; and Brussels, Belgium.
THROCHMORTON, ARCHIBALD HALL (28 Mar. 1876-20 May 1938), legal scholar and educator, was born in Loudon County, Va., to Mason and Annie Humphrey Throchmorton, spent much time in his father's justice of the peace courtroom, received an A.B. from Roanoke College (1896), an A.M. from Princeton University (1897), and a LL.B. from Washington & Lee University (1900), admitted to the Virginia bar in 1900.
TITUS, SIGMUND ALEXANDER (30 Jan. 1884-c. 30 July 1936) was a lawyer involved in the affairs of Cleveland's Polish community. Born near Grodzisk, Poland, he was the son of Joseph and Leokadia Balczynska Titus. A product of the Berlin public schools, he graduated from Friedrich Werder College and studied at the Oriental Seminary in Berlin.
TOLLES, HOGSETT, GINN & MORLEY was formed in 1913 by the merger of 2 established Cleveland law firms: Kline, Tolles & Morley and Blandin, Hogsett & Ginn. It specialized in business law, working especially with railroads and utilities. Sheldon H. Tolles (1 Oct. 1858-14 July 1926) had been involved in local partnerships with Virgil P. Kline since beginning his practice in the early 1880s; ca. 1901, John E.
TUBBS JONES, STEPHANIE (10 September 1949 - 20 August 2008) was the first African American woman from Ohio elected to the United States House of Representatives, and served the state's eleventh congressional district for nearly ten years. Prior to her election to Congress, Tubbs Jones was Chief Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County.
VAIL, HARRY LORENZO (11 Oct. 1860-27 Feb. 1935), journalist, lawyer, and politician, was born in Cleveland to Judge I.C. and Clara Van Husen Vail. At 19, Vail received his B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan and over the next 5 years studied law at intervals, being admitted to the bar in 1884, although he did not begin practicing until 1888.
VAIL, HERMAN LANSING (6 July 1895-7 Jan. 1981), lawyer and newspaper publisher, was born in Cleveland to Sarah A. Wickham and HARRY L. VAIL, earned an A.B. from Princeton University in 1917 and an LL.B. from Harvard University Law School in 1922, being admitted to the Ohio bar in 1922.
VICKERY, WILLIS (26 Nov. 1857-26 Sept. 1932) was a judge of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals, and an organizer of Baldwin University Law School.
The VILLAGE OF EUCLID V. AMBLER REALTY CO., decided on 22 Nov. 1926, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle and practice of land-use zones in the U.S. The Court reversed a lower federal court ruling in a 6-3 decision. Until then, zoning land in municipalities for specific uses had been a popular "city efficient" technique receiving lukewarm support in the nation's state courts.
WALTER, PAUL WILLIAM (18 April 1907-4 Nov. 1992), arbitration lawyer, served on the National War Labor Board and chaired the regional Steel Inequity Panel during WORLD WAR II. He was a Republican candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives (1930s) and for the U.S. Congress (1953). Walter was born in Cleveland to Carl Frederick and Leda A. (Schneidemantel) Walter.
WEYGANDT, CARL (14 June 1888-4 Sept. 1964), lawyer and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 30 years, was born near Wooster, Ohio to Cora (Mock) and Common Pleas Judge Wm. E. Weygandt. He graduated from Wooster College in 1912. After teaching 3 years he entered Western Reserve University Law School, graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1918.