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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 […]

In the case of State ex rel. Util. Supervisors Employees’ Assn. v. Cleveland, 2023-Ohio-463, an appellate court denied a union’s request to compel a city to fulfil two public records requests involving all agreements — proposed signed or unsigned, completed or failed — between the city and any contractors for water and sewer related work […]

In the case of Ault v. Durbin, 2022-Ohio-4826, a special master concluded that the personal notes of a councilperson were not public records as such notes were kept for personal use only. In this case, the requester argued that the personal notes of the councilperson were required to be maintained as public records. In response, […]