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Can two legal complaints be combined in one lawsuit? How does that work?
<p>Our craftswomens cooperative would sue under Chapter 2741 of the Ohio Revised Code (ORC)</p>
<p>prohibiting use of an individual's &quot;persona&quot; for &quot;commercial purposes&quot; without written permission.</p>
<p>Also, we would like to sue for 'libel' resulting in the blacklisting of our jewelry-making group.</p>
<p>Should these two complaints be combined into one? Or are there necessarily two separate cases?</p>

<h2>All causes of action from the same circumstances <em>must</em> be pursued together</h2>
<p>Assuming the statutory infringement and the libel arise from the same acts of the defendant, they must <em>both</em> be claimed in the same case (as does any other grievance the plaintiff has) or they cannot be pursued at all.</p>
