EIGHMEY v. CLEVELAND (2022)

Supreme Court of Ohio.

EIGHMEY, Appellee, et al., v. The City of CLEVELAND, Appellant.

No. 2020-0677

Decided: December 30, 2022

Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A., Patrick J. Perotti, and Frank A. Bartela, Painesville, for appellee, Allyson Eighmey. Mark D. Griffin, Cleveland Director of Law, and Craig J. Morice, Assistant Director of Law, for appellant.

{¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Lycan v. Cleveland, ––– Ohio St.3d ––––, 2022-Ohio-4676, ––– N.E.3d ––––.

Kennedy, DeWine, Stewart, and Brunner, JJ., concur. O'Connor, C.J., and Donnelly, J., dissent for the reasons set forth in Chief Justice O'Connor’s dissenting opinion in Lycan. Fischer, J., dissents and would order briefing.

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