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  • Appeals court overturns the conviction of a defendant denied his Constitutional right to examine the computer evidence used against him in a criminal proceeding.
  • Jury acquits former Riverside police officer of all criminal charges relating to his brief detention of an individuals under investigation for threatening another.
  • Jury awards former Hamilton County employee $135,000 for claims of race discrimination and retaliation. The plaintiff's husband, the highest-ranking African American within the county's juvenile court, was fired after 22 years of service when, after learning he was being paid less than white employees at the same level, he filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC.
  • Jury finds UPS liable for workers compensation retaliation and age discrimination after the company fired a veteran employee just weeks after the employee filed a claim for an job-related injury. Employee ordered reinstated, awarded $330,000 in damages and attorneys fees.
  • Jury awards former corporate executive $875,000 after employer failed to compensate him as promised at the time of his hire.
  • Railroad, chemical company settle class action lawsuit filed by hundreds of Cincinnati-area residents forced to evacuate their homes due to an abandoned train tanker leaking a hazardous chemical in the air.
  • Ohio University alumni file class action lawsuit against after personal information of more than 200,000 alumni and students, including social security numbers, was left on an open server and hacked into for more than 15 months.
  • Veterans file class action lawsuit against United States Department of Veteran's Affairs after personal information of over 17 million veterans, including social security numbers and medical information, is stolen.
  • Ohio Secretary of State settles class action lawsuit over publication of social security numbers on its website and agrees to change its practices.
  • Former Cincinnati mayors file taxpayers lawsuit to force Hamilton County to honor its contracts over the stalled multi-million dollar Banks project.
  • Appeals court rules that woman's claims against Archdiocese of Cincinnati for forcing her to give up her child as a teenager after becoming impregnated by a priest should go forward.
  • Woman files class action against Hamilton County Clerk of Courts after her identity is stolen by criminals who obtained her personal information, including social security number, from the Clerk of Court's public website. Clerk of Courts changes publication practices just two days later.
  • Bank settles class action lawsuit on behalf of subcontractors not paid in connection with Erpenbeck fraud.
  • Cincinnati Bell settles class action lawsuit on behalf of customers improperly charged roaming fees.
  • City of Cincinnati pays $70,000 to Over-the-Rhine man after jury finds that police officer violated his Constitutional rights by entering his apartment without a warrant and physically arresting him for a minor misdemeanor noise violation.
  • Jury finds City of Covington unlawfully retaliated again former police officer when it filed him after filing a charge of disability discrimination with the EEOC.
Attorney Profiles
Marc D. Mezibov 
Cincinnati, Ohio
Partner
phone (513) 621-8800
fax (513) 621-8833
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Marc D. Mezibov has over 35 years experience in successfully litigating matters at all levels of state and federal courts. Mr. Mezibov largely focuses his practice on employment, civil rights and class action litigation, having successfully represented clients against the world's largest corporations and government entities. He has also represented individuals in several high-profile criminal prosecutions and death penalty appeals. He also represents a number of local academic faculty and staff in employment matters.

Mr. Mezibov has been listed in Best Lawyers in America in two categories: Labor/Employment and First Amendment Litigation and has been recognized by the Ohio Lawyers weekly as one of the top ten lawyers for the year 2000; by Cincinnati Magazine as one of Cincinnati's top 50 lawyers in 1995; and as an Ohio "Super-Lawyer" since 2003.  Mr. Mezibov has served as general counsel of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and as chair of the Civil Rights Committee of the Cincinnati Bar Association. In 2003, Mr. Mezibov was selected as a member of the subcommittee of the Ohio Judicial Conference, responsible for drafting pattern jury instructions to be used throughout Ohio courts in cases of defamation, libel and slander. Mr. Mezibov holds an AV rating (the highest conferred) in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory.

Mr. Mezibov is a graduate of the Boston University School of Law and American University. He is admitted to practice in Ohio and New Jersey, United Stated District Courts in the Southern and Northern Ohio as well as the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Among Mr. Mezibov's significant cases are the City of Cincinnati v. Contemporary Art Center, et al. (Ohio Mun. 1990), 556 N.E.2d 214 (successfully defended arts center director criminally charged for displaying Mapplethorpe exhibit); City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc. (1993),  507 U.S. 410 (successfully argued to United States Supreme Court to strike city ordinance banning commercial handbill newsracks); State ex rel. Miami Student v. Miami University (1997), 680 N.E.2d 956 Ohio St.3d (successfully argued to Ohio Supreme Court to compel release of student disciplinary records to track campus crime); and Estep v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State (2006), U.S. Dist. Ct. No. 06-106 (settled class action against Ohio Secretary of State for internet disclosure of thousands of individuals' Social Security numbers).

Areas of Practice:
Employment Law
Civil Rights
Education/School Law
Defamation
Litigation Percentage:
100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1970
Ohio, 1974
U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio
U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1978
U.S. Supreme Court, 1992
Education:
Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1970
J.D.


American University, Washington, D.C., USA, 1967
B.A.
Major:  History


Representative Cases:
Discovery Network v. City of Cincinnati, 200 U.S. 321 (U.S. Supreme Court 1993)
State ex rel. Miami Student v. Miami University, 79 Ohio St.3d 168 (OH Supreme Court 1997)
Professional Associations and Memberships:
National Employment Lawyers Association
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