AI in Court

Eugene Volokh | 10.10.2025 1:17 PM

In Souders v. Lazor, decided Wednesday by the Ohio Court of Appeals (Judge Marilyn Zayas, joined by Judges Terrance Nestor and Richard Moore), Souders sued based on "certain posts made in a Facebook group entitled, 'Are We Dating the Same Guy Cincinnati/Dayton'":

[T]wo of the named defendants … filed a motion to dismiss Souders' claims against them. The motion to dismiss asserted that the allegations against them arose from representation of their clients …. Additionally, appellees subsequently answered the complaint and filed a joint counterclaim to declare Souders a vexatious litigator under R.C. 2323.52….

The motion claimed that Souders' Hamilton County complaints "stemmed from his 'spurned attempts' to date defendant" Lazor:

After Lazor and Souders matched on a dating app and began talking, Lazor posted Souders' photo "to a community of local women" to gather background information on Souders, where she learned of several negative encounters with him. Lazor then attempted to stop communicating with Souders, but he continued to contact her—despite being blocked—on other social-media accounts, either as himself or while using a fake profile. Simultaneously, Souders sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lazor's home address, demanding that she........

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