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 […]
In the case of Stanford v. Northmont City School Dist., S.D.Ohio No. 3:19-cv-399 (Feb. 8, 2023), a federal district court dismissed the unlawful search, discipline, and discrimination federal claims brought by two minority high school students as the students failed to show that either the school board or any of its officials acted unlawfully after […]
In the case of State ex rel. Media & Democracy Ctr. v. Atty Gen., 2023-Ohio-364, an appellate court held that the Attorney General must comply with discovery requests that were beyond the scope of public records request when those discovery requests are necessary to determine the existence of public records and that a public official […]
In the case of The Markup v. Ohio Dept. of Job & Family Servs., 2023-Ohio-623, a special master held that most records relating to how the agency’s unemployment insurance fraud prediction system worked were infrastructure records under R.C. 149.433 and were exempt from disclosure under R.C. 149.43. In this case, the requester argued that the […]
In the case of Duff v. Christopher, 2023-Ohio-349, the lead decision for an appellate court concluded that a trial court was required to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether an employer’s president threatened to shoot an employee in the head while holding the president’s hand up mimicking a handgun raising arose out of and/or […]