Court decisions from across the country have implications right here in Ohio. Here is a selection of recent cases, and why they matter.
In the case of Inskeep v. Columbus Zoological Park Assn., 2023-Ohio-288, an appellate court held that an issue of fact existed — to be determined by a jury — as to whether a zoo was liable for injuries to a mother who was struck by her own three-year old child while driving an unattended golf […]
In the case of Drummond v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 2023-Ohio-283, an appellate court held that (1) contact information and impressions of valuations, without a demonstration of how the valuations are reached, are not protected by the attorney-client privilege and (2) documents prepared after the lawsuit was filed but did not relate to […]
In the case of Jones v. Kent City School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2023-Ohio-265, an appellate court held that a teacher’s employment contract was improperly nonrenewed by a school board as the teacher’s absence did not excuse the board from conducting one of the three formal observations mandated by R.C. 3319.111(E) as the teacher was […]
In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews, 2022-Ohio-3990, the Ohio Supreme Court held that (1) a governmental risk-sharing pool providing legal services to a public body may be subject to public record requests and (2) a court is required to conduct an in camera review of law […]
In the case of State ex rel. Ames v. Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews, 2023-Ohio-263, an appellate court individually and privately scrutinized legal invoices submitted by a law firm to a governmental risk-sharing pool representing a public body — as directed by the Ohio Supreme Court — and determined that the narrative portions of […]
In the case of Williams v. Shawnee Twp., 2023-Ohio-252, an appellate court held that — to the extent an insurance company actually had a duty to explain the perils of declining uninsured-motorist coverage to a driver — there was no evidence, in this case, that the insurance company breached any such duty to the driver […]
In the case of Williams v. Shawnee Twp., 2023-Ohio-251, an appellate court held that a police officer did not act in a wanton or reckless manner when the police offer exercised care and followed department guidelines during a high-speed chase that caused an accident with the citizen’s car, and, therefore, neither the town’s statutory immunity […]
In the case of In re J.M.P., 2023-Ohio-225, the appellate court enforced a shared parenting plan declaring the mother to be the residential parent for school enrollment purposes and ordering the father to pay a portion of such enrollment. In this case, the mother argued that the shared parenting plan (1) vested the mother with […]