Linda Brown was a third grader who simply wanted to avoid a long walk and bus ride and join her white friends in class, but she was black, and the Topeka, Kansas, elementary school four blocks from her home was segregated, open only to white students. This third grader went on to become the symbolic […]
The Ohio Ethics Commission just published its newest newsletter, “The Voice of Ethics,” which can be viewed here. Past newsletters from the Ohio Ethics Commission can be viewed here. McGown & Markling is often asked to opine on various ethics issues, but the best ethics advice comes straight from the Ohio Ethics Commission itself. To request an […]
In the case of Marlatt v. Ohio Dept. of Job & Family Servs., 2023-Ohio-630, an appellate court held that 18 documented incidents of disciplinary action over 22 months qualified as “just cause” under R.C. 4141.29(D)(2)(a) to terminate an employee and deny unemployment compensation benefits. In this case, the unemployment commission argued that the employee engaged […]
In the case of Ryan v. Ashtabula, 2023-Ohio-621, the special master recommended dismissing a public record requestor’s complaint under R.C. 149.43 as the requester asked for all emails from 2021, nonexistent “accurate invoices” reflecting the requester’s view of facts, and records the city had already provided. In this case, the requester simply argued that the […]
In the case of Brown v. JC Austintown, Inc., 2023-Ohio-553, an appellate court held that an employer’s mere sending of a pre-litigation response letter to an employee to discuss the alleged facts, which was silent as to arbitration, was not inconsistent with the right to arbitrate under the circumstances in this case. In this case, […]
In the case of State ex rel. Lusane v. Kent Police Dept., Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-480, the Ohio Supreme Court held that dash- and body-cam recordings are public records and subject to disclosure after a public record request under R.C. 149.43 unless the arrest footage meet the confidential law enforcement investigatory records (“CLEIR”) exception, but, […]
In the case of Weiler v. Technipower, Inc., 2023-Ohio-465, an appellate court held that an applicant does not have a right to be employed by a potential staffing agency simply because the staffing agency reached out to the applicant as to a possible position of employment with an unnamed client and then stopped communicating with […]