Opinion

Jakobovitch v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision (Slip Opinion)

  • 152 Ohio St. 3d 187
  • 94 N.E.3d 519
  • 2017 Ohio 8818
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 6, 2017
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On the bench
Per Curiam
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The opinion

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as

Jakobovitch v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-8818.]

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SLIP OPINION NO. 2017-OHIO-8818

JAKOBOVITCH, APPELLANT, v. CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF REVISION

ET AL., APPELLEES.

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it

may be cited as Jakobovitch v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision, Slip Opinion

No. 2017-Ohio-8818.]

Taxation—Real-property valuation—Property owner failed to carry her burden of

adducing competent and probative evidence of her proposed value of

subject property—Board of Tax appeals did not fail to resolve all questions

of law and fact arising from proceedings before board of revision—Board

of Tax Appeals’ decision affirmed.

(No. 2015-1431—Submitted September 26, 2017—Decided December 6, 2017.)

APPEAL from the Board of Tax Appeals, No. 2014-3406.

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Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} In this real-property-valuation case, appellant, Galina Jakobovitch,

filed a complaint seeking to reduce the valuation assigned to her property by the

Cuyahoga County fiscal officer. The Cuyahoga County Board of Revision

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(“BOR”) and the Board of Tax Appeals (“BTA”) both retained the fiscal officer’s

valuation. Jakobovitch has appealed the BTA’s decision, raising both value-related

arguments and procedural arguments. Because Jakobovitch has not shown that the

BTA acted unreasonably or unlawfully, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

{¶ 2} The subject property consists of a single-family dwelling located on a

roughly .45-acre parcel in the city of Beachwood. For tax year 2013, Jakobovitch

filed a complaint seeking to reduce the fiscal officer’s valuation from $1,429,100

to $850,000. Appellee Beachwood City School District Board of Education (“the

BOE”) filed a countercomplaint, urging retention of the fiscal officer’s valuation.

BOR proceedings

{¶ 3} At the BOR hearing, Jakobovitch furnished a list of purportedly

comparable properties sold between 2010 and 2014. The list is difficult to interpret,

but it appears to show home values ranging from $575,100 to $931,000.

Jakobovitch did not testify about the houses on the list.

{¶ 4} Jakobovitch also presented a financing appraisal, which opined a

value of $1,050,000 as of July 2010. The appraiser did not appear to testify.

{¶ 5} When asked why Jakobovitch had requested a valuation of $850,000,

her counsel responded that the request was “just a prayer.” Counsel also posited

that there is a limited market for the subject property due to both the excessive size

and the religious features of the house. No analysis was offered to quantify how

these attributes affect the property’s value.

{¶ 6} For its part, the BOE stated that the financing appraisal that

Jakobovitch submitted should not be given weight because the appraisal did not

value the property as of the 2013 tax-lien date, the appraiser did not appear to

testify, and the comparables identified in the appraisal were not located near the

subject property.

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{¶ 7} The BOR retained the fiscal officer’s valuation. The BOR’s hearing

notes indicate that the appraisal was “dated (3 years old)” and that there was a “lack

of probative evidence” to justify a reduction.

BTA proceedings

{¶ 8} Jakobovitch appealed to the BTA. The BTA observed that

Jakobovitch bore the burden to present competent and probative evidence of her

proposed value, and it found that she failed to meet this burden. Specifically, the

BTA refused to assign evidentiary value to Jakobovitch’s appraisal or to her list of

comparable sales. It also found that her averments regarding the installation of

religious features on the property were insufficient to justify a reduction. Because

the BTA found that Jakobovitch did not meet her burden, and because it found that

the record did not contain enough evidence to permit an independent determination

of value, it adopted the fiscal officer’s valuation. Jakobovitch then filed this appeal.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

{¶ 9} We will affirm a BTA decision that is reasonable and lawful. Satullo

v. Wilkins, 111 Ohio St.3d 399, 2006-Ohio-5856, 856 N.E.2d 954, ¶ 14. Our review

of the BTA’s resolution of legal issues is de novo, but we will defer to the BTA’s

findings concerning the weight of the evidence if the record supports them. Lunn

v. Lorain Cty. Bd. of Revision, 149 Ohio St.3d 137, 2016-Ohio-8075, 73 N.E.3d

486, ¶ 13.

DISCUSSION

{¶ 10} Jakobovitch raises eight propositions of law. We will address her

value-related arguments first and her procedural arguments second.

Jakobovitch’s value-related arguments

{¶ 11} An overarching theme running throughout Jakobovitch’s brief, and

one featured prominently in her third proposition of law, is that the BTA misapplied

the standards governing her burden of proof. In her view, the BTA’s departure

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from these standards caused it to disregard her evidence of value in favor of the

fiscal officer’s valuation.

{¶ 12} The burden-of-proof standards that apply in a real-property-

valuation case are well settled, and we find no error in the BTA’s application of

these standards. “[T]he party challenging the board of revision’s decision at the

BTA has the burden of proof to establish its proposed value as the value of the

property.” Colonial Village, Ltd. v. Washington Cty. Bd. of Revision, 123 Ohio

St.3d 268, 2009-Ohio-4975, 915 N.E.2d 1196, ¶ 23; see also W. Industries, Inc. v.

Hamilton Cty. Bd. of Revision, 170 Ohio St. 340, 342, 164 N.E.2d 741 (1960) (“The

burden is on the taxpayer to prove his right to a deduction. He is not entitled to the

deduction claimed merely because no evidence is adduced contra his claim”). To

meet that burden, the appellant must furnish “competent and probative evidence”

of the proposed value. EOP-BP Tower, L.L.C. v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision,

106 Ohio St.3d 1, 2005-Ohio-3096, 829 N.E.2d 686, ¶ 6. “[T]he board of revision

(or auditor),”1 on the other hand, “bears no burden to offer proof of the accuracy of

the appraisal on which the county initially relies, with the result that the BTA is

justified in retaining the county’s valuation of the property when an appellant fails

to sustain its burden of proof at the BTA.” Colonial Village at ¶ 23.

{¶ 13} It follows from the case law that Jakobovitch bore the burden of

proof at the BTA to adduce competent and probative evidence of her proposed

value. With this settled principle in mind, we now turn to her more specific

arguments.

Jakobovitch’s challenge to the BTA’s treatment of her appraisal

{¶ 14} Jakobovitch argues in her seventh proposition of law that the BTA

erred in disregarding her July 2010 financing appraisal. We confronted a similar

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In Cuyahoga County, the fiscal officer performs the functions normally performed by a county’s

auditor. See Bowman v. Cuyahoga Cty. Fiscal Officer, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 102492, 2015-Ohio-

2866, ¶ 10, fn. 3; see also Akron City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. Summit Cty. Bd. of Revision, 139

Ohio St.3d 92, 2014-Ohio-1588, 9 N.E.3d 1004, ¶ 3, fn. 1.

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argument under analogous circumstances in Musto v. Lorain Cty. Bd. of Revision,

148 Ohio St.3d 456, 2016-Ohio-8058, 71 N.E.3d 279, ¶ 40-42. There, the owner

furnished an appraisal that opined a value almost three years prior to the tax-lien

date. The appraisal had been performed for financing purposes, and the appraiser

did not testify. The BTA refused to credit the appraisal, and we determined that

the BTA’s determination was reasonable. We find Musto applicable here.

{¶ 15} First, the appraisal submitted by Jakobovitch opined a value as of

July 2010 and thus does not coincide with the 2013 tax-lien date. The vintage of

an appraisal matters because “ ‘the essence of an assessment is that it fixes the value

based upon facts as they exist at a certain point in time.’ ” Id. at ¶ 41, quoting

Freshwater v. Belmont Cty. Bd. of Revision, 80 Ohio St.3d 26, 30, 684 N.E.2d 304

(1997). Second, Jakobovitch “did not introduce testimony alongside [her] appraisal

to explain its application to the tax-lien date.” Id. at ¶ 41. Lastly, the appraisal was

performed for financing purposes. In the absence of supporting testimony, applying

a financing appraisal in the tax-valuation setting can be problematic because it may

not necessarily represent a “ ‘complete and thorough evaluation of the property.’ ”

Id. at ¶ 42, quoting Metzler v. Pickaway Cty. Bd. of Revision, BTA No. 2004-R-

481, 2005 WL 2911447, *3 (Oct. 21, 2005). It follows that the BTA did not err

here in disregarding the appraisal.

{¶ 16} Jakobovitch asserts in her fifth proposition of law that the BTA

created a bright-line rule that requires the property owner to adduce an appraisal to

justify a reduction in value. However, as was true in Moskowitz v. Cuyahoga Cty.

Bd. of Revision, 150 Ohio St.3d 69, 2017-Ohio-4002, 78 N.E.3d 870, ¶ 15,

Jakobovitch confuses the BTA’s finding that her nonappraisal evidence was not

probative with an ironclad rule that an appraisal is necessary to justify a reduction

in value. This argument is even less convincing here because Jakobovitch

presented an appraisal to support her claim to a reduced value but the BTA

determined that the appraisal was not reliable.

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Jakobovitch’s challenges to the fiscal officer’s valuation and the computer-

assisted mass-appraisal system

{¶ 17} In her fourth and sixth propositions of law, Jakobovitch questions an

upward adjustment made by the fiscal officer and challenges the computer-assisted

mass-appraisal (“CAMA”) system used by Cuyahoga County. As to the first point,

she adverts to the testimony of Joseph Toledo, Cuyahoga County’s CAMA-system

administrator. At the BTA hearing, Toledo testified that he preliminarily valued

Jakobovitch’s property at $1,100,000 based on the CAMA system but then

explained that the fiscal officer overrode this preliminary value, upwardly adjusting

it to $1,429,100 based on a field appraiser’s finding.2 At oral argument, counsel

for the fiscal officer and the BOR maintained that these two valuations were

components of the same overall process of valuing the property. Jakobovitch

maintains that the fiscal officer’s unexplained adjustment warrants a remand so that

the adjustment can be explained.

{¶ 18} Jakobovitch tethers her argument to Dayton-Montgomery Cty. Port

Auth. v. Montgomery Cty. Bd. of Revision, 113 Ohio St.3d 281, 2007-Ohio-1948,

865 N.E.2d 22. There, the auditor increased the valuation of a building by 60

percent through the application of an unexplained grade-factor adjustment. The

county board of revision made modest adjustments to this valuation but largely

upheld it. The BTA rejected the board of revision’s adjustments, explaining that it

could not discern the board of revision’s rationale. And because the BTA found

that the property owner’s evidence of value was incomplete, it reverted to the

county auditor’s valuation.

{¶ 19} We reversed the BTA’s decision and remanded the case on the

grounds that the owner’s actual-cost evidence and the auditor’s cost schedules

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Toledo’s preliminary valuation of $1,100,000 was apparently performed for tax year 2012, a

sexennial reappraisal year in Cuyahoga County. The BTA hearing transcript indicates that the

upwardly adjusted valuation of $1,429,100 was assigned to tax year 2012 and then carried over to

tax year 2013.

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corroborated each other and, taken together, negated the validity of applying the

grade-factor adjustment. Id. at ¶ 14. Moreover, we held that the cost evidence and

cost schedules furnished an adequate basis for the BTA to value the property on a

cost basis. Id. at ¶ 16. Because this evidence negated the auditor’s valuation and

no competing evidence was adduced to support the auditor’s valuation, we

concluded that the BTA erred in reverting to it. Id. at ¶ 14.

{¶ 20} The crux of Jakobovitch’s theory, as we understand it, is that the

financing appraisal’s opinion of value of $1,050,000 and Toledo’s preliminary

valuation of $1,100,000 are analogous to the actual-cost evidence and cost

schedules in Dayton-Montgomery. We reject that analogy. First, the appraisal

presented here differs from evidence of actual costs. The former represents an

opinion of value, whereas the latter constitutes objective, hard data. To be sure, an

appraisal’s opinion of value may arise from hard data. But Jakobovitch simply asks

us to consider her appraisal’s opinion of value in a stand-alone fashion, and that

does not furnish the same type of foundation to value property as cost evidence.

Second, we find it disingenuous for Jakobovitch to argue on the one hand that the

CAMA system generates flawed results while arguing on the other hand that

Toledo’s preliminary value of $1,100,000—which was based on the CAMA

system—negates the fiscal officer’s valuation of $1,429,100.

{¶ 21} Quite simply, then, nothing impugns the fiscal officer’s actions, so

we presume that the fiscal officer’s unexplained adjustment was made in good faith

and arose from the exercise of good judgment. See Akron City School Dist. Bd. of

Edn. v. Summit Cty. Bd. of Revision, 139 Ohio St.3d 92, 2014-Ohio-1588, 9 N.E.3d

1004, ¶ 24. Moreover, we find it immaterial that the fiscal officer’s upward

adjustment lacks a supporting rationale because, as the BTA correctly found,

Jakobovitch failed to furnish competent and probative evidence of her proposed

value. Under the case law, the fiscal officer does not bear the burden to prove the

accuracy of his or her valuation until the proponent of a different value presents

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competent and probative evidence to rebut that valuation. Colonial Village, 123

Ohio St.3d 268, 2009-Ohio-4975, 915 N.E.2d 1196, at ¶ 23, 30-31.

{¶ 22} Similar logic defeats Jakobovitch’s challenges to Cuyahoga

County’s CAMA system. She posits that the CAMA system was not personally

approved by the tax commissioner as required by Ohio Adm.Code 5703-25-07(G)

and that it does not conform to accepted scientific or statistical practices. But these

contentions fail because Jakobovitch never met her burden in the first instance and

thus never cast the burden back on the county to defend the accuracy of its

valuation.

Jakobovitch’s procedural arguments

Whether the BTA erred in failing to address certain arguments that Jakobovitch

raised below

{¶ 23} Under her first proposition of law, Jakobovitch argues that the BTA

erred by failing to resolve all questions of law and fact arising from the underlying

BOR proceedings. More specifically, Jakobovitch faults the BTA for failing to

address three specific arguments raised in her BTA brief.

{¶ 24} Jakobovitch first faults the BTA for failing to address her argument

that the BOR erred in denying her motion for an order calling the fiscal officer (or

an appropriate delegate), the fiscal officer’s records custodian, and the field

appraiser to appear for examination at the BOR’s hearing. The BTA’s decision

acknowledges that Jakobovitch filed the motion, but it did not rule on the propriety

of the BOR’s denial of the motion.

{¶ 25} The BTA’s responsibility in an appeal from a decision of a county

board of revision consists of determining value, R.C. 5717.03(B), but there is no

requirement that the BTA make detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law,

Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Revision, 144 Ohio St.3d 421, 2015-

Ohio-4522, 44 N.E.3d 274, ¶ 15. Although the BTA has a duty to “engage in

sufficient discussion of the evidence to permit th[is] court” to perform its reviewing

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function, there is no general requirement that the BTA address “each and every

argument raised against its conclusion * * *.” Lutheran Social Servs. of Cent. Ohio

Village Hous., Inc. v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Revision, 150 Ohio St.3d 125, 2017-

Ohio-900, 79 N.E.3d 541, ¶ 12. And while R.C. 5703.02(A)(2) empowers the BTA

to “hear and determine all appeals of questions of law and fact arising under the tax

laws of this state in appeals from * * * [d]ecisions of county boards of revision,”

the statute does not instruct the BTA on how to apply these powers when

determining a property’s value. The absence of more specific statutory guidance

suggests that the BTA enjoys some measure of discretion in choosing how to

exercise this authority. See In re Application of Columbus S. Power Co., 128 Ohio

St.3d 512, 2011-Ohio-1788, 947 N.E.2d 655, ¶ 68 (“Any lack of statutory guidance

on that point should be read as a grant of discretion”).

{¶ 26} Under these principles, we are not convinced that Jakobovitch has

shown that the BTA committed reversible error. The BTA determined the

property’s taxable value as directed by R.C. 5717.03(B), and Jakobovitch points to

no apposite authority requiring the BTA to do more. The crux of her argument to

the BTA was that the BOR deprived her of the right to due process when it denied

her motion because, in her view, she was entitled to cross-examine the fiscal

officer’s employees who valued her property. But nothing prevented her as an

appellant before the BTA from invoking the BTA’s subpoena power to summon

relevant witnesses. See R.C. 5703.03. Indeed, she invoked this power to compel

the attendance of a representative of the tax commissioner, a BOR representative,

and Toledo. Moreover, the lead authority that Jakobovitch urged the BTA to

consider, 75 Pub. Square v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision, 76 Ohio App.3d 340,

345, 601 N.E.2d 628 (8th Dist.1991), describes due process as consisting of

reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard. On this understanding,

Jakobovitch received the full extent of due process. She received notice of the BOR

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hearing and ultimately made a presentation to the BOR to support her requested

reduction in value.

{¶ 27} Jakobovitch next argues that the BTA erred in failing to address her

contention that the BOR violated her due-process right to a fair and impartial

decisionmaker. According to Jakobovitch, the BOR committed this violation when

it denied her motion calling certain persons (described above) to appear at the

BOR’s hearing. She also adverts to a perceived conflict of interest resulting from

the fact that the fiscal officer and the BOR are represented by the same counsel.

But we have expressly acknowledged that “[w]hile the board of revision is a

deciding tribunal, it is not a truly impartial tribunal in the sense that a trial court or

the BTA is.” R.R.Z. Assocs. v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Revision, 38 Ohio St.3d 198,

200, 527 N.E.2d 874 (1988). The three county officials who sit on a county board

of revision “conduct the affairs of the county,”3 and this composition thereby gives

the board of revision “an interest in the case because the value decision affects the

county’s tax revenues.” Id. Because of the potential conflicts that may arise from

this arrangement, the General Assembly “provided for an appeal to the BTA or the

court of common pleas” for a de novo hearing. Alliance Towers, Ltd. v. Stark Cty.

Bd. of Revision, 37 Ohio St.3d 16, 25, 523 N.E.2d 826 (1988) (lead opinion)

(rejecting due-process argument predicated on composition of county board of

revision).

{¶ 28} Jakobovitch’s last argument under this proposition of law asserts that

the BTA erred in failing to address her contention that she should have been granted

additional time to depose Toledo. Toledo’s deposition, which occurred during the

pendency of the BTA’s proceedings, was terminated because his counsel had to

depart for a previously scheduled medical appointment. Afterwards, Jakobovitch

3

The three officials are the county treasurer, the county auditor (or fiscal officer where appropriate),

and a member of the board of county commissioners. R.C. 5715.02.

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filed a motion seeking the resumption of Toledo’s deposition, but a BTA attorney

examiner issued an interim procedural order denying the motion.

{¶ 29} Contrary to Jakobovitch’s contention, the BTA did address her claim

that she had been improperly denied further discovery; it determined that the claim

had no merit: “Additionally, we find that appellant’s arguments regarding * * * the

discovery disputes before this board are without merit because for the reasons stated

below, appellant failed to meet her primary burden on appeal: to provide competent

and probative evidence to support its [sic] right to the value asserted.” BTA No.

2014-3406, 2015 Ohio Tax LEXIS 3276, *7 (Aug. 3, 2015). We conclude that

Jakobovitch has not demonstrated that the BTA failed to resolve all questions of

law and fact.

Whether the BTA erred in not permitting Jakobovitch to resume a deposition

{¶ 30} In her second proposition of law, Jakobovitch asserts a related

argument that the BTA erred in denying her motion to compel the resumption of

Toledo’s deposition. The BTA attorney examiner denied the motion “[u]pon

consideration of the motion and responses thereto, including the representations

made as to the length and contents of the deposition already conducted.” BTA No.

2014-3406, 2015 Ohio Tax LEXIS 1311, *1 (Mar. 6, 2015). While the attorney

examiner’s order does little to clarify the BTA’s rationale, Jakobovitch has not

made a convincing case that the BTA erred in denying her motion.

{¶ 31} The BTA’s discovery rulings are reviewed according to an abuse-of-

discretion standard. HK New Plan Exchange Property Owner II, L.L.C. v.

Hamilton Cty. Bd. of Revision, 122 Ohio St.3d 438, 2009-Ohio-3546, 912 N.E.2d

95, ¶ 16. Under this standard, such a ruling is affirmed unless the BTA’s attitude

was unreasonable, arbitrary, or unconscionable. Gaston v. Medina Cty. Bd. of

Revision, 133 Ohio St.3d 18, 2012-Ohio-3872, 975 N.E.2d 941, ¶ 25.

{¶ 32} In Murray & Co. Marina, Inc. v. Erie Cty. Bd. of Revision, 123 Ohio

App.3d 166, 703 N.E.2d 846 (6th Dist.1997), the Sixth District Court of Appeals

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confronted an argument similar to the one Jakobovitch advances. In that real-

property-valuation case, the court of common pleas had denied a property owner’s

request to subpoena the county auditor. Id. at 173. On appeal, the court of appeals

ruled that the court of common pleas did not abuse its discretion in denying the

request because the denial did not prevent the owner from supporting its requested

reduction based on its own evidence. Id. at 174.

{¶ 33} We find that logic persuasive here. Like the property owner in

Murray, Jakobovitch was still permitted to present evidence at the BTA’s hearing

to support her proposed value, and, notably, that evidence included the testimony

of Toledo, who was required to appear by virtue of a subpoena that Jakobovitch

had obtained. Moreover, at oral argument, Jakobovitch’s counsel stated that

Toledo’s testimony at the BTA hearing provided the evidence she was seeking.

And while Jakobovitch claims that she suffered “material consequences” from her

inability to depose Toledo further, her reasoning in support of this assertion is

circular: “Had Toledo’s deposition been completed, the existence of the

unexplained adjustment would have been discovered at the time of the deposition,

rather than at the merit hearing.” But this truism does not explain how the BTA’s

ruling had a prejudicial effect on Jakobovitch.

Whether the BTA acted unfairly

{¶ 34} In her eighth proposition of law, Jakobovitch asserts that the alleged

errors in the BTA’s decision are so pervasive that they amount to an

unconstitutional violation of her due-process right to a fair and impartial tribunal.

She offers one sentence in direct support of this argument: “Here, Jakobovitch

incorporates by reference her arguments made under Proposition of Law No. I,

regarding Assignment of Error No. 2 in her Appellant’s Brief to the BTA.” On its

own, this sentence does not establish Jakobovitch’s point. And Jakobovitch’s

reliance on arguments made in another section of her brief does not advance her

position because she makes no attempt in that section to develop an argument that

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the BTA evinced bias toward her. See Mason City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v.

Warren Cty. Bd. of Revision, 138 Ohio St.3d 153, 2014-Ohio-104, 4 N.E.3d 1027,

¶ 38 (“The absence of authority and argumentation based on constitutional case law

constitutes, all by itself, grounds for rejecting the due-process argument”); Richman

Properties, L.L.C. v. Medina Cty. Bd. of Revision, 139 Ohio St.3d 549, 2014-Ohio-

2439, 13 N.E.3d 1126, ¶ 29 (“we reject the county’s first proposition of law because

the assertion has been inadequately supported as a ground for reversal on appeal”).

CONCLUSION

{¶ 35} For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the BTA’s decision.

Decision affirmed.

O’CONNOR, C.J., and O’DONNELL, KENNEDY, FRENCH, O’NEILL, FISCHER,

and DEWINE, JJ., concur.

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J. Alex Morton, for appellant.

Michael C. O’Malley, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Mark

R. Greenfield, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellees Cuyahoga County

Fiscal Officer and Cuyahoga County Board of Revision.

Brindza, McIntyre & Seed, L.L.P., and David A. Rose, for appellee

Beachwood City School District Board of Education.

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