In the case of S.W. Ohio Basketball, Inc. v. Himes, 2021-Ohio-415, the Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals held that the Director of the Ohio Department of Health’s August 1 Health Order subjecting contact and noncontact sports to different requirements had a legitimate government interest and was rationally related to achieving that interest. The trial […]
In the case of Viola v. Cuyahoga Cty. Prosecutor’s Office, 3032-Ohio-397, the court held that inspection of a prosecutor’s personal email was not required where the requester failed to show clear and convincing evidence that the prosecutor’s email contained public records. The requester believe that he was denied access to public records in violation of […]
In the case of Cleveland Firefighters Assn. IAFF Local 93 v. Cleveland Dept. of Law, 2021-Ohio-399, the court held that the special master in a public records case did not err in requiring the respondent to establish clear and convincing proof nor does the assumption of attorney client privilege meet the level of clear and […]
In the case of Sylvester v Turning Point Counseling Servs., Inc. 2021-Ohio-1284, an Ohio Appeals Court held that an expired employment contract cannot serve as the basis for a breach of contract claim. In this case, an employee filed a breach of contract claim, arguing that the employment contract was valid because the board failed […]
Since the ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. 1731, holding that Title VII protects employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, school districts and institutions of higher education have struggled to determine if the Court’s ruling is applicable in the context of Title IX. On his first day in […]
In the case of Portage County Educators Ass’n v. State Empl. Rels. Bd., 2020-Ohio-7004, an Ohio Appeals Court held that R.C. 4117.12(B) is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate the content of speech with regard to picketing. In this case, the association argued that the statute imposed an unconstitutional content-based restriction on speech and that […]