Employment Law Court Rulings

Granting a motion to confirm an arbitration award and denying a motion to vacate the same award, the Court holds: the parties' contract and applicable law gave the arbitration panel authority to decide both substantive and procedural arbitrability questions. Judgment is entered confirming the…

Appellant challenges the district court's grant of a harassment restraining order (HRO), arguing that his conduct was not objectively unreasonable and did not have a substantial adverse effect on respondent that was objectively reasonable. We affirm.

This is a premises liability case brought by a sales representative for a product vendor who was injured while in a Tractor Supply store performing his job. The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of Tractor Supply. On appeal, this Court affirmed the trial court's decision based upon the…

The Plaintiff brought a claim of intentional interference with business relationships against the Defendant, and the Defendant moved to dismiss under the Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA). The Defendant attached to the motion a declaration to establish that the suit was in response to his…

Attorney fees—$400 an hour determined to be reasonable rate given respondents' concession and the absence of satisfactory evidence submitted by relator in support of $690 rate billed by relator's attorneys—Respondents invoked "good-faith exception" too late because former R.C. 149.43(C)(3)(c) does…

Attorney fees; mandate rule; guardian ad litem fees; R.C. 3105.73(A); Ohio Sup.R. 48.02(H)(3). Reversed and remanded. The trial court's award of attorney fees to appellee is reversed and remanded because the trial court was considering financial support appellant received from her father when…

Divorce; marital property division; valuation dates; financial accounts; retirement accounts; posttrial evidence; spousal support; temporary spousal support; temporary support; economic misconduct; distributive award; attorney's fees; R.C. 3105.171(A)(2); R.C. 3105.171(E)(4); R.C. 3105.18(C)(1);…

Breach of contract; unjust enrichment; void; R.C. 4735.02; weight of the evidence; damages; R.C. 2323.51; frivolous conduct. Affirmed. The trial court did not err by concluding that an enforceable contract existed based on the claims asserted in the complaint and at trial for damages stemming from…

DEFAMATION PER SE – TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE – BREACH OF SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT – QUALIFED PRIVILEGE – ACTUAL MALICE – JURY INSTRUCTIONS – DERIVATIVE CLAIMS – NOTICE OF CROSS-APPEAL: Where plaintiff former employee sued his former employer for defamation, the trial court erred in finding that the former…

JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS — CIV.R.12(C) — COMMON LAW WRONGFUL DISCHARGE — R.C. CH. 4112 — EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION — WORKERS' COMPENSATION RETALIATION — R.C. 4123.90: The trial court erred when it dismissed plaintiff-employee's common-law wrongful-discharge claim in violation of Ohio's public…

Plaintiff brought claims against Knox County and the County Clerk based on allegedly discriminatory employment practices. The trial court determined that Plaintiff committed serious discovery violations and imposed as a sanction the exclusion of certain evidence. With this evidence excluded, the…