Opinion

Garfield Heights City School District Board of Education v. Gillihan

  • 17 Ohio App. 3d 86
  • 17 Ohio B. 147
  • 477 N.E.2d 681
  • 1984 Ohio App. LEXIS 12438
Court
Ohio Court of Appeals
Filed
Nov 13, 1984
Status
Published
Author
Corrigan
On the bench
Pryatel, Markus, Corrigan
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 43.4%

The opinion

Corrigan, C.J.,

dissenting. I must respectfully dissent and state the reasons with limited elaboration. The board had the right to raise on appeal the issue of the commission’s jurisdiction.

In re Termination of Employment of Pratt

(1974), 40 Ohio St. 2d 107 [ 69 O.O.2d 512 ]; and

Ludwig

v.

Willoughby-Eastlake Bd. of Edn.

(1983), 10 Ohio App. 3d 229 .

In

State, ex rel. Crockett,

v.

Robinson

(1981), 67 Ohio St. 2d 363 [ 21 O.O.3d 228 ], the Supreme Court held that a civil service commission is an agency required to prepare and certify a complete record of proceedings as mandated by R.C. 119.12. With emphasis added, the court said, at 365:

“Failure of the agency to comply within the time allowed, shall, upon motion, cause the court to enter a finding in favor of the party adversely affected. ”

As to the third assignment of error claiming the appellee was required to show prejudice resulting from the failure to certify the record, it should be pointed out that the statute makes no reference to a demonstration of prejudice, and the case relied upon in the brief involved the “agency’s omission of

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items from the certified record.” In the instant case no record was filed.

There is no authority for appellant’s position on a due process deprivation as argued in the fourth assignment.

Crockett

v.

Robinson, supra,

specifically held that judgment must be entered in favor of the party adversely affected.

The judgment of the trial court should be affirmed.

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