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Update: On July 23, 2015, the court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On June 23, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation v. Jeffrey McKinley and Heritage-WTI, Inc., et al., 2014-0795. At issue…

On October 21, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Friebel v. Visiting Nurse Assn. of Mid-Ohio, 2014-Ohio-4531. In a 5-2 decision written by Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, in which Justice Terrence O’Donnell concurred in judgment only, the court held that the dual purpose or dual intent doctrine (the…

Update: On October 21, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

On April 9, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Visiting Nurse Association of Mid-Ohio v. Friebel, 2013-0892.  At issue is whether an Ohio worker’s compensation…

Update: On October 21, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On April 9, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Visiting Nurse Association of Mid-Ohio v. Friebel,…

Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

On June 20, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of Houdek et al. v. ThyssenKrupp Materials, NA, 2011-1076.

Bruce Houdek worked at ThyssenKrupp’s warehouse. He was assigned to light…

The case of  Houdek et al. v. ThyssenKrupp Materials, NA, 2011-1076   is all about the employer intentional tort, as if any more could be said about this topic.  To paraphrase President Ronald Reagan, here we go again.

Let’s start with some very basic fundamentals, probably known to all (but as a law professor I can’t…

Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument of this case here.

On June 20, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of Houdek et al. v. ThyssenKrupp Materials, NA, 2011-1076.