Court Rulings

Core Terms: public record court of claims R.C. 2743.75 R.C. 149.43 email overly broad moot. Overview: Requester sought all email to and from each of twelve public employees for a fourteen-month period. Respondent denied the request, but also provided thousands of responsive emails to requester. The special master recommended that the court find that the request had been properly denied as overly broad, and had also been rendered moot.

Appellants' employee embezzled funds from Appellants using the employee's Bank of America account. The employee wrote checks on Appellants' accounts to legitimate third party vendors but deposited the checks into her own personal account by way of Bank of America's ATMs. Appellants filed suit against Bank of America alleging that the bank's failure to either prevent this activity or alert Appellants thereto constituted causes of action for aiding and abetting conversion, aiding and abetting fraud, civil conspiracy, and negligence. The trial court granted Bank of America's motion to dismiss Appellants' claims for aiding and abetting fraud and conversion and for civil conspiracy based on Bank of America's lack of knowledge of Appellants' employee's wrongdoing. The court subsequently granted Bank of America's motion for summary judgment on the remaining negligence claim finding that the bank owed no duty to Appellants. We affirm.

Personal injury action arising out of accident between a pickup truck and a dump truck hauling materials for a company that paved roadways. The pickup truck driver sued the driver of the dump truck and the paving company to recover for injuries he sustained in the accident. The trial court granted the paving company's motion for summary judgment, holding that the driver of the dump truck was an independent contractor and that the paving company was not liable for the dump truck driver's negligence. The injured driver appeals. Upon a thorough review of the record, we affirm the grant of summary judgment.

TRADE SECRETS – MISAPPROPRIATION: A company's client list and financial data are trade secrets where the client list and financial data derive independent value from not being generally known, and where the company has made efforts to maintain their secrecy. The unauthorized sharing of a company's trade secrets with an accountant, even for the purposes of due diligence for an investment in the company, and the disapproved retention of trade secrets, even for the purposes of preparing for litigation, are misappropriations under Ohio's Uniform Trade Secrets Act. A claim for misappropriation of trade secrets does not require proof of damages.

Habeas corpus failure to file commitment papers failure to file affidavit of prior civil actions state court of appeals lacks jurisdiction over federal inmates dismissed.

Over ten years after entry of a judgment, the judgment creditors filed a motion for scire facias to revive the judgment. The trial court denied the motion based on a determination that expiration of the statute of limitations deprived the court of subject matter jurisdiction. On appeal, the judgment creditors argue that their motion was timely because the debtor revived the debt by agreeing that the debt was nondischargeable in bankruptcy. We conclude that the trial court possessed subject matter jurisdiction but that revival does not apply. So we affirm as modified.