In the case of Pagano v. Case Western Reserve Univ., 2021-Ohio-59, an Ohio Appeals Court held that granting summary judgment to a university was improper when a reasonable jury could find the university violated its tenure policy by not establishing clear criteria to award tenure to hybrid scientist candidates. The university argued the employee’s credentials […]
In the case of Noll v. Univ. of Akron, 2021-Ohio-1563, the Court of Claims of Ohio held that the requester’s request was properly denied because: the request was overly broad, the request was ambiguous, and a requester is only entitled to deleted records if the deleted records were deleted in violation of the office’s record […]
In the case of B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a school district could not punish a student for expressing dissatisfaction with the school district and its cheerleading program via social networking platforms, as this speech is protected by the First Amendment to […]
Ohio joined forty-eight (48) other states in allowing sex marker changes on an individual’s birth certificate, after the recent ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in the case of Ray v. McCloud. In Ray, the Court held the policy of the Ohio Department of Health (“ODH”) denying Ohioans […]
In the case of Faulkner v. City of Cincinnati Civil Serv. Comm’n., 2020-Ohio-6711, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals held that an employee was properly classified as an Administrative Technician based on the employee’s duties. The employee argued that the classification Administrative Specialist was a more accurate description of the employee’s role and that […]
In the case of Key Realty, Ltd. V. Hall, 2021-Ohio-26, the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals held that an independent contractor did not violate a Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation, and Confidentiality Agreement because of their status as an independent contractor. Key Realty argued that Hall violated numerous covenants of the Agreement when Hall created a subsequent […]