Sanctions Against Ohio Attorney Reversed in Frozen Embryo Case (1)

A Cleveland attorney won’t face sanctions for re-filing documents that a judge previously removed from the public docket over confidentiality concerns in a case over damaged embryos and eggs, an Ohio appeals court ruled.

An opinion released Monday by the 11th District Court of Appeals said the trial judge told the clerk to remove the first motion from the public docket without explicitly barring the lawyer from re-filing the motion with a redaction, which he did.

The opinion reverses an order from Geauga County Common Pleas Judge Carolyn J. Paschke, who found Subodh Chandra, head of The Chandra Law Firm ...