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Middlebrook v. Ohio State Univ. Wexner Med. Ctr.
| 2025-00569JD | Motion for summary judgment; Civ.R. 56; promissory estoppel; negligent misrepresentation; conditional offer. Plaintiff failed to establish the existence of an issue of material fact as to plaintiff’s claims against defendant for promissory estoppel and negligent misrepresentation as a result of a conditional offer of employment by defendant to plaintiff. Defendant’s motion for summary judgment was granted. | Sadler | |
7/31/2026
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8/19/2026
| 2026-Ohio-3202 |
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Allen v. Sidney
| 2026-00233PQ | Special master permitted intervention by third party to defend public office’s use of trade-secret exception to withhold public records (R.C. 1333.61(D)). Special master found that a draft site plan for a data center development project was a record as a defined in R.C. 149.011(G). Special master also found that the draft site plan was correctly withheld from public-records release as a trade secret (R.C. 149.43(A)(1)(v) and 1333.61(D)). | Pierce | |
7/27/2026
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8/31/2026
| 2026-Ohio-3403 |
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Lane v. Portage Cty. Sheriff's Office
| 2025-00910PQ, 2025-00911PQ, 2025-00916PQ, 2025-00917PQ, 2025-00920PQ, 2025-00921PQ | On objections in consolidated public-records cases, applying White v. Ross Corr. Inst., 2026-Ohio-1002, ¶ 27-28, (10th Dist.), the court found that requester had not lodged timely objections to the special master’s report and recommendation in the manner prescribed by R.C. 2743.75(F)(2). On the authority of White, and in accordance with R.C. 2743.75(F)(2), the court found that there was no error of law or other defect evident on the face of the special master’s report and recommendation. | Sadler | |
7/23/2026
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8/31/2026
| 2026-Ohio-3400 |
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Shaner v. Perry Cty. Agriculture Soc.
| 2026-00028PQ | On objections, the court overruled requester’s objections and adopted the special master’s report and recommendation. In accordance with the special master's recommendations, the court entered judgment in respondent's favor, assessed court costs against requester, and denied, as moot, a motion to dismiss filed by respondent. | Sadler | |
7/23/2026
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8/31/2026
| 2026-Ohio-3401 |
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Croce v. Ohio State Univ. Bd. of Trustees
| 2020-00626JD & 2022-00187JD | Civ.R. 56; motion for summary judgment; breach of contract; declaratory judgment. Defendant was entitled to judgment as a matter of law on plaintiff’s breach of contract claim for unpaid bonuses because the contract made any bonus payments discretionary rather than mandatory. The claim that defendant breached its contractual obligation to rehabilitate plaintiff’s reputation failed because defendant satisfied its initial obligation to work with plaintiff, and the contract contemplated mutual participation, yet plaintiff did not seek to work with university personnel to rehabilitate his reputation. The court also determined that plaintiff’s breach of contract claim challenging his 2021 removal as the endowed chair was moot. Finally, defendant was also entitled to judgment as a matter of law on plaintiff’s declaratory judgment claim because such claim was subsumed by plaintiff’s breach of contract claim. Judgment for defendant. | Sadler | |
7/22/2026
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8/19/2026
| 2026-Ohio-3201 |
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