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, […]
In the case of Morrison v. Starr, 2023-Ohio-425, a special master concluded that a city’s seven-month delay in acknowledging receipt of a public record request and ten-month delay in producing the requested records were both well beyond a “reasonable period of time” in violation of R.C. 149.43(B)(1). While the special master explained that, whether a […]
In the case of Morelia Group-DE, L.L.C. v. Weidman, 2023-Ohio-386, an appellate court held that a business sufficiently alleged a “set of facts” that, if proven true, may trigger the limited R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b) statutory immunity exception afforded to a township trustee as the complaint alleges that the trustee’s “personal animus” toward the business’s chief executive […]
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 […]