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 McGuire v. City of Newark, 2020-Ohio-4226, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3114, an Ohio court of appeals found that in a police officer’s gender discrimination and retaliation action under R.C. 4112.99 and 4112.02 against the city, summary judgment for the city was in error regarding her claim of hostile work environment since male […]
In the case Tanksley v. Howell, 2020-Ohio-4278, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3172, an Ohio court of appeals found that in an employee did not establish that a supervisor’s reliance on a check-in and check-out violation as a basis for the suspension was a pretext for racial discrimination under R.C. 4112.02(A), because there was no indication […]
In the case of Garza v. Lansing Sch. Dist., 6th Cir. Case No. 1:15-cv-01128, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that school officials may be held liable for teacher-to-student abuse when there was a history of student abuse complaints made against the same teacher. In this case, multiple student abuse complaints were made […]
In the case State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow Cty. Bd. of Comm’rs, 2020-Ohio-4160, 2020 Ohio LEXIS 1905, the Ohio Supreme Court found under traditional tools of statutory interpretation, R.C. 339.02 was to be read as providing that each of the county commissioners, as opposed to the board as a whole, possessed a vote on […]
In the case Lunsford v. Sterilite of Ohio, L.L.C., 2020-Ohio-4193, 2020 Ohio LEXIS 1907, an Ohio appellate court found that a trial court correctly determined that the former at-will employees failed to sufficiently plead invasion-of-privacy claims, arising from the private employer’s implementation of a workplace substance-abuse policy requiring the employees to submit a urine sample […]
In the case Fried v. Friends of Breakthrough Sch., 2020-Ohio-4215, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3110, an Ohio appellate court found that the trial court erred in denying a school’s motion to dismiss on the ground that it was immune from liability by virtue of its status as a political subdivision because the administrator of a […]
In the case State ex rel. Ewart v. State Teachers Ret. Sys. Bd. of Ohio, 2020-Ohio-4147, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3036, an Ohio appellate court considered whether a member of the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System, who worked as a teacher in a public school system, was entitled to a writ of mandamus ordering the […]
In the case Ohio Ass’n of Pub. Sch. Emples. v. Unemployment Comp. Review Comm’n, 2020-Ohio-4028, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 2920, an Ohio appellate court found that in public school employees association’s action seeking unemployment compensation benefits during strike, trial court did not err in adopting unemployment compensation review commission’s determination that employees were not entitled […]