ATLANTA — The woman who says she had a long-running extramarital affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a single mother and Atlanta-area businesswoman who has faced repeated financial trouble and once lost a lawsuit accusing her of spreading damaging lies about an ex-business partner.
Unlike their federal counterparts at the U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio’s seven justices work throughout the year and their schedule remains busy through the summer months. Several major cases found their way onto or off of the Ohio Supreme Court docket in the past week in major, newsworthy ways. The largest splash came from a case that found its way onto the docket at the state’s highest court, not as an appeal, but rather as an original action seeking compliance with the state’s public records law. Seeking to gather all possible information about Ohio State’s recent football transgressions, ESPN (along with other media outlets) is trying to gain access to additional emails between OSU officials about the NCAA violations.