POSAN v. BOYER (2026)

Supreme Court of Ohio.

POSAN, Appellee, v. BOYER et al., Appellants.

No. 2025-0491

Decided: May 27, 2026

Stark & Knoll and Orville L. Reed III, for appellee, Amanda Posan. Hanna, Campbell & Powell, L.L.P., and Kenneth A. Calderone, James M. Lyons Jr., and John R. Chlysta, for appellants, William J. Boyer, Barberton Board of Education, and Barberton High School.

{¶ 1} Sua sponte, as to proposition of law No. I, the judgment of the Ninth District Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for application of our decision in Hoskins v. Cleveland, 2026-Ohio-1225, ––– N.E.3d ––––.

{¶ 2} As to proposition of law No. II, the cause is sua sponte dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.

The below judgment of the court was joined by Kennedy, C.J., and Fischer, DeWine, Deters, Hawkins, and Shanahan, JJ. Brunner, J., concurred in part and dissented in part and would dismiss the cause as having been improvidently accepted as to both propositions of law.

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