Saturday, July 14, 2012
Summit County Common Please Judge Alison McCarty heard closing arguments Friday.
After a month and a half of trial, the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road closure trial has come to a close. Attorneys for Copley, Fairlawn and Jacob Pollock gave their closing arguments Friday afternoon in Judge Alison McCarty's courtroom. To make it easy, we'll break apart the closing arguments by attorney. Here's what each one had to say: Jordan Berns, representing Jacob Pollock • "Closing Rothrock Road is illegal for two separate reasons: it's being conducted in bad faith and it is per say unreasonable because it's a principal highway and it connects two communties." • "The first reason Fairlawn's plan is illegal is because it's being carried out in bad faith. It serves no legitimate governmental purpose. It's to protect the residential …
Friday, July 13, 2012
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The closing arguments for the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road trial will be heard today. Tune in at 12:30 p.m. for our live feed. Local editor Megan Rozsa will be at the courthouse covering the trial. There are two attorneys for Copley giving closing arguments and they will each have an hour. Stephen Funk, Fairlawn's attorney, will have an hour and a half. There will then be 15 minutes for rebuttal before the trial is officially over. Join the conversation above and tell us what you think. Look for the full story the next morning. Related articles: Roth: Lost Walmart Revenue Not an Issue, I'm Concerned About Runoff' Poll: Who Should Win the Rothrock Road Closure Trial? LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Final Day Catch Up: Last …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Fairlawn's Mayor William Roth was the final witness in the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road trial Wednesday.
It was more of the same in the final day of the Rothrock Road closure trial, as Fairlawn's Mayor William Roth took the stand as the city's last witness. Roth was on the stand for six hours, which is a half hour longer than the previous testimony record set by Jason Segedy, director of the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study. Roth had previously testified as if on cross examination for Copley Township attorney Irv Sugerman and Jacob Pollock attorney Jordan Berns. He stated many of the same things in Fairlawn's direct examination Wednesday. Take our poll: Who should win the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road closure trial? "I'm concerned about the environmental effect on the area if big-box retail goes in there," Roth said. "Our goal …
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This is it, folks. The Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road closure trial will come to an end Friday afternoon when attorneys give their closing arguments. There have been 11 days of trial in Summit County Common Pleas Judge Alison McCarty's courtroom. The trial started June 1. So after all the testimony — and there's been a lot — we want to know who you think should win the Rothrock Road trial. We also want to know why you feel that way. Will closing Rothrock Road ruin your commute to the Montrose area? Are you concerned about the residents at Copley Place? Are you glad that extra traffic from a Walmart development won't come into your residential neighborhood? We want to know! If you missed any of the trial, and you want to catch up before …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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The last testimony of the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road trial will be heard today. Tune in at 9:30 a.m. for our live feed. Local editor Megan Rozsa will be at the courthouse covering the trial. Fairlawn Mayor William Roth is the final witness. Join the conversation above and tell us what you think. Look for the full story the next morning. Related articles: Catch Up: Last Witness in Rothrock Road Trial Takes Stand Wednesday Chief Hose: Blocking Rothrock Would Not Hurt Copley Township LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Day 10 Copley Township, Jacob Pollock Attorneys Rest in Rothrock Road Trial LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Day 9 Expert: 'Copley Place Location is Every Fire Chief's Dream' LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Have you missed any part of the Rothrock Road trial so far? Catch up here.
We're down to the last witness in the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road closure trial. Court has been in session for almost two months, and Fairlawn will call Mayor William Roth to the stand Wednesday morning. The trial started June 1 in Summit County Common Pleas Judge Alison McCarty's courtroom. Fairlawn attorneys Stephen Funk and Marshal Pitchford argue that closing Rothrock Road at Sawgrass Drive and installing a gate at Rosemont Boulevard will not slow response times for emergency vehicles to get to and from Copley Place or anywhere else in that area. Copley Township attorney Irv Sugerman and attorneys Jordan Berns and Tim Duff, who represent Fairlawn resident Jacob Pollock, say closing Rothrock will slow response times and that it's …
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Fairlawn fire Chief Russ Hose testified on Day 10 of the Rothrock Road closure trial.
Fairlawn attorneys called their second to last witness to the stand in the Rothrock Road closure trial, and he said closing the road will not hurt Copley Township's ability to respond efficiently to Copley Place. Fairlawn fire Chief Russ Hose testified in Summit County Common Pleas Judge Alison McCarty's court Tuesday morning. Hose has been with the Fairlawn Fire Department for 30 years. "Copley Place is one of the best served areas you can have in Summit County," Hose said. "It's triangulated between three fire stations that have fire response vehicles and EMS vehicles." Hose said he doesn't know of any other facility in Summit County that has that kind of emergency service available to it. Over the last month of trial, several of Copley'…
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Follow our live feed of the trial and join the conversation here.
It's Week 3 of the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road trial. Tune in today at 9 a.m. for our live feed. Local editor Megan Rozsa will be at the courthouse covering the trial. Join the conversation above and tell us what you think. Look for the full story the next morning. Related articles: Copley Township, Jacob Pollock Attorneys Rest in Rothrock Road Trial LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Day 9 Expert: 'Copley Place Location is Every Fire Chief's Dream' LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Day 8 Engineering Consultant Says Rothrock is Principal Road, Not Residential LIVE: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Day 7 Recap: Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road Trial Week One Local Developers Don't Support Any Big-Box Retail …
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Join the civic conversation with your gripes, your questions and your opinions.
I know you have something to say about the Rothrock Road closure trial. You've been commenting on my live feeds and my stories for the past two weeks. So why not get it all out in one place? Maybe you want to talk specifically about someone's testimony, or maybe you want to talk about how much closing the road would inconvenience you? Just like any other news organization, Fairlawn-Bath Patch accepts the classic "Letters to the Editor." We welcome hyper-local topics that might not be relevant to the broader Summit County community, as well as more far-reaching concerns, questions and points of debate. We want your letters and will run them as often as they come in. Letters should be sent to megan.rozsa@patch.com with the word letter in the…
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday was the ninth day of trial in the Copley v. Fairlawn Rothrock Road closure trial.
Plaintiff attorneys for Copley Township and Jacob Pollock officially rested their case Tuesday after hearing testimony from Dan Zarkovacki, part owner of the Fairway Park Apartments. Summit County Common Pleas Judge Alison McCarty allowed Fairlawn to call witnesses before the plaintiffs rested because Pollock's attorney Jordan Berns couldn't schedule Zarkovacki to be in the courtroom any earlier. Check out a play-by-play feed from Tuesday's court session here. Berns asked Zarkovacki several questions about the building of a proposed Walmart and Sam's Club complex on Rothrock Road and the filing of litigation challenging the zoning of the area. Zarkovacki said the litigation was filed by Fairway Park Apartments against Copley Township. …
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