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In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Portage Cty. Bd. of Comm’rs, 2020-Ohio-4359, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3245, the appellate court found that the use of consent agendas by the Solid Waste Management District Board of Commissioners (SWMB to approve routine resolutions, was not in conflict with the Open Meetings Act (OMA). The SWMB […]

In the case McGuire v. City of Newark, 2020-Ohio-4226, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3114, an Ohio court of appeals found that in a police officer’s gender discrimination and retaliation action under R.C. 4112.99 and 4112.02 against the city, summary judgment for the city was in error regarding her claim of hostile work environment since male […]

In the case Tanksley v. Howell, 2020-Ohio-4278, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3172, an Ohio court of appeals found that in an employee did not establish that a supervisor’s reliance on a check-in and check-out violation as a basis for the suspension was a pretext for racial discrimination under R.C. 4112.02(A), because there was no indication […]

In the case of Garza v. Lansing Sch. Dist., 6th Cir. Case No. 1:15-cv-01128, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that school officials may be held liable for teacher-to-student abuse when there was a history of student abuse complaints made against the same teacher. In this case, multiple student abuse complaints were made […]

In the case State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow Cty. Bd. of Comm’rs, 2020-Ohio-4160, 2020 Ohio LEXIS 1905, the Ohio Supreme Court found under traditional tools of statutory interpretation, R.C. 339.02 was to be read as providing that each of the county commissioners, as opposed to the board as a whole, possessed a vote on […]