In the case Licking Cty. Veterans Servs. Comm’n v. Holmes, 2020-Ohio-3294, P1, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 2228, an Ohio appellate court held that the trial court abused its discretion when it substituted its judgment for that of the State Personnel Board of Review (SPBR) concerning a civil service employee’s punishment, R.C. 119.12, because the trial […]
In the case State ex rel. Cook v. Bowling Green City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 2020-Ohio-3252, 2020 Ohio LEXIS 1326, the Ohio Supreme Court found that an elector was entitled to a writ of mandamus ordering a transferring board of education to certify the transfer proposal to the State Board of Education, but not […]
In the case Clark v. Campbell, 2020-Ohio-3333, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 2268, an Ohio appellate court held that the trial court erred in denying summary judgment to the county employee because she was entitled to immunity under R.C. 2744.03(A)(6), since she did not intend to cause harm, breach a known duty through an ulterior motive […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio S.B. 319 makes changes to education law for the 2020-2021 school year. The legislation requires the Department of Education to make an additional payment in fiscal year 2020 or 2021 to certain school districts that experience a decrease in the taxable value of the district’s utility tangible […]
In the case Albright v. Eagles Nest Outfitters, Inc., 2020-Ohio-3046, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 1986, an Ohio appellate court found that because the board of education failed to timely assert immunity as an affirmative defense, the defense was waived. The board raised immunity as a defense for the first time in its motion for summary […]
In the case Thomas v. Hyundai of Bedford, 2020-Ohio-3030, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 1965, an Ohio appellate court held that where a former employee signed an arbitration agreement with his then-employer, his assertion that he could not be compelled to arbitrate his race discrimination and retaliation claims against the employer was without merit because the […]