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OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION; RICHARD F. SYRON; PATRICIA L. COOK; ANTHONY S. PISZEL; EUGENE M. MCQUADE,
Defendants-Appellees.
   No. 20-4082
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Youngstown.
No. 4:08-cv-00160—Benita Y. Pearson, District Judge.
Argued: March 16, 2023
Decided and Filed: April 6, 2023
Before: McKEAGUE, THAPAR, and LARSEN, Circuit Judges.


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McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) filed a class action suit alleging securities fraud against Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and four senior officers (collectively, Freddie Mac). The district court denied OPERS’ motion for class certification. So, OPERS petitioned for our review under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f). But we denied review. Back at the district court, OPERS requested, and the district court granted, “sua sponte” summary judgment for Freddie Mac. Now, OPERS appeals both the class certification and summary judgment decisions. Because the district court’s summary judgment decision was manufactured by OPERS in an apparent attempt to circumvent the requirements of Rule 23(f), the decision was not final. We therefore lack jurisdiction, and accordingly must reverse and remand.



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
JOSHUA L. WOOLRIDGE,
Defendant-Appellant.
   No. 22-3243
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Akron.
No. 5:21-cr-00145-1—John R. Adams, District Judge.
Decided and Filed: April 6, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; BATCHELDER and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


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SUTTON, Chief Judge. After police detained Joshua Woolridge but before they read him the required Miranda warnings, Woolridge told the officers that he was out on parole and that he had carried a gun. Woolridge said the same after the officers gave him the Miranda warnings minutes later. The district court refused to suppress Woolridge’s post-warning statements and imposed a sentence above the Sentencing Guidelines range. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.



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CHARLES JACKSON,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
CITY OF CLEVELAND, et al.,
Defendants,

BARBARA RHODES MARBURGER,
Defendant-Appellant.
   No. 22-3253
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland.
No. 1:21-cv-01679—J. Philip Calabrese, District Judge.
Argued: December 8, 2022
Decided and Filed: April 6, 2023
Before: MOORE, STRANCH, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


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KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Charles Jackson filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit, claiming that Barbara Rhodes Marburger, an assistant prosecutor at the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, denied him access to the courts by redacting exculpatory information from his investigative file, which had been requested from her office under the Ohio Public Records Act. The district court found that she was protected by neither absolute immunity nor qualified immunity and denied her motion to dismiss. Although we agree with the district court that Marburger is not entitled to absolute immunity, for the reasons stated below we REVERSE the district court’s denial of qualified immunity.