10/20/2022

Case Caption Case No. Topics and Issues Author Citation
Cleveland Botanical Garden v. Worthington Drewien 2020-0629Real property—R.C. 755.19—Restrictions on conveyance of property for park purposes to a city under a deed of gift—Application of the Marketable Title Act, R.C. 5301.47 et seq., to right of reversion when reversionary interests are original to the root of title—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed.Brunner, J.Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-3706
Valentine v. Cedar Fair, L.P. 2021-0981Contract law—Property law—Breach of contract—Unjust enrichment—Revokable license—Season-pass holder received a revokable license to enter onto amusement-park property for park’s 2020 season under stated terms and conditions in exchange for the consideration of the purchase price of the season pass—Park’s owner was neither unjustly enriched nor in breach of contract with 2020 season-pass holder when it closed the park for two months in response to the government-mandated shutdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, because the season pass’s terms and conditions provided that the amusement park could change its dates of operation without advance notice and close rides and attractions “for weather or other conditions,” including the government-mandated shutdown—Season-pass holder received the benefit of her bargain—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and trial court judgment reinstated.Kennedy, J.Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-3710
State ex rel. Standifer v. Cleveland 2021-1280Mandamus—Public Records Act—Confidential-law-enforcement-investigatory-records (“CLEIR”) exception to disclosure requirement—City’s police use-of-force (“UOF”) reports satisfy first requirement of CLEIR definition under R.C. 149.43(A)(2) because they pertain to law-enforcement matters and cannot be characterized as simply personnel documents—City’s UOF reports satisfy second requirement of CLEIR definition because city failed to prove that their release would create a high probability of disclosure of any of four types of information specified in R.C. 149.43(A)(2), including the “identity of a suspect who has not been charged with the offense to which the record pertains”—A UOF report could, in certain circumstances, identify an uncharged suspect, but there is no per se rule that UOF reports always do so—Court of appeals’ denial of writ reversed and cause remanded.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-3711
Cleveland Metro. Bar Assn. v. Brooks 2022-0714Attorneys—Misconduct—Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct—Indefinite suspension.Per CuriamSlip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-3712
Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Discount Drug Mart, Inc. 2022-0318Court of appeals’ judgment vacated and cause remanded for application of Acuity v. Masters Pharmaceutical, Inc. Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-3714
10/20/2022 Case Announcements  Merit decisions with opinions—Motion and procedural rulings.  
10/20/2022 Case Announcements #2  Motion and procedural rulings.  
10/20/2022 Case Announcements #3  Reconsideration of prior decisions.