Employment Law Court Rulings

At an earlier time, Byron L. Jackson, Jr. (plaintiff) and defendant Jay Howard Crippen operated a company named Swiss Technologies, Inc. There were disagreements. The parties engaged in mediation. Following mediation, the parties, including Swiss, entered into a three year consulting agreement for…

REPORTED MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER granting Government's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Appropriations Caps denying [46] Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Appropriations Caps and denying as moot [42] Government's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Appropriations…

Civ.R. 60(B) notification e-filing system abuse of discretion. Trial court did not err in denying plaintiff's motion to vacate summary judgment for employer where plaintiff was promptly served with employer's motion for summary judgment pursuant to the trial court's local rules for electronic…

This is a sexual assualt/health care liability case wherein a female customer alleges she was assaulted while receiving a massage at a day spa. The customer sued both the massage therapist as well as the employer-business, bringing intentional tort, negligence, and vicarious liability claims. The…

An employee of Nashville Electric Service ("NES") was terminated in 2015 due to false and misleading information he provided on his initial application for employment nine years earlier, in 2006. NES did not discover that the information was false until the employee submitted an application for…

This Court affirmed a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, reversing a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission. The common pleas court found there was no just cause to terminate Lancaster's employment.

Judgment affirmed trial court did not abuse its discretion in awarding reasonable attorney fees pursuant to Civ.R. 37(A)(5) and entering a default judgment as a sanction pursuant to Civ.R. 37(B)(1)(f).

The trial court did not err when it overruled appellant's motion for summary judgment on its political subdivision immunity. The appellees adduced evidence establishing the existence of a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the appellant was negligent for the manner in which it chose…

The parents of a kindergartener filed suit against a metropolitan government for negligence after their child injured her arm at school. The trial court granted the metropolitan government's motion for summary judgment based upon its finding that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the…

Enforcement of arbitration agreement, law-of-the-case doctrine, Civ.R. 60(B), Evid.R. 702, expert witness, manifest weight of the evidence. A trial court's reversal and remand places the parties in the same position they were in prior to the error. A trial court's determination of an expert…