Court decisions from across the country have implications right here in Ohio. Here is a selection of recent cases, and why they matter.
An unanimous 8-0 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, 586 U. S. ____ (2018), determined that all state and local governments and their subdivisions are employers covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) – regardless of the number of employees that are employed by […]
In the case of Grimm v. Gloucester Cty. School Bd., 302 F. Supp. 3d 730 (E.D.Va. 2018), a federal trial court allowed a transgender student to bring discrimination claims against the student’s school board based upon the student’s transgender status under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) and the Equal Protection Clause […]
In the case of Burchard v. Ashland Cty. Bd. of Dev. Disabilities, 2018-Ohio-4408, an Ohio appellate court determined that supervising and retaining employees are considered government functions, which means that an argument can now be made that school boards are not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to persons or […]
In the case of EEOC v. R.G. &. G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, 884 F.3d 560 (6th Cir. 2018), a federal appellate court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects transgender persons because of their transgender or transitioning status. Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against their employees in matters related to employment – […]
In the case of Thomas v. Dayton Pub. Schools Bd. of Edn., 2018-Ohio-4231, an Ohio appellate court determined that a school board had good and just cause to terminate a teacher when she failed to input final grades. This case began when a public school teacher failed to input the final third quarter grades for her […]
In the case of Nelsons v. Ohio High School Athletic Assn., 2018-Ohio-4169, an Ohio appellate court upheld the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s (“OHSAA”) decision not to allow an out-of-state student to participate in athletics because the student was from a United States territory and his legal guardians had not moved to Ohio with the student. […]
In Crochran v. Columbus City Schools, 17-4110 (6th Cir. 2018), the federal appellate court ruled that a special education teacher’s use of a body sock to restrain a disruptive autistic student was not a constitutional violation and within her rights to use. The case involved a student with both autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who was […]
In a long awaited decision, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the appeal in In re L.G., Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-3750 as improvidently accepted, leaving the Ohio appellate court’s decision regarding the obligation of school officials to issue Miranda warnings in place. In this case, a young student made a bomb threat to a public middle […]