# Painter v. Graley

> Ohio Supreme Court · September 28, 1994 · 70 Ohio St. 3d 377

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6770298

## Case

- **Full name:** Painter v. Graley
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 28, 1994
- **Citations:** 70 Ohio St. 3d 377; 639 N.E.2d 51
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Douglas
- **Judges:** Brogan, Douglas, Moyer, Paragraph, Paragraphs, Pfeifer, Resnick, Second, Sweeney, Syllabus, Wright
- **Cited by:** 292 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that “an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine is justified where an employer has discharged his em: ployee in contravention of a ‘sufficiently clear public policy’ ”
- concluding that there was not clear public policy in support of allowing public employees to become candidates for public office

## Opinion text

Douglas, J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part. I concur with paragraphs two and three of the syllabus and the well-reasoned discussion supporting these statements of law. I respectfully dissent as to paragraph one of the syllabus and the ultimate judgment reached by the majority. In this regard, I concur in the persuasive excursus in the dissent of Judge Brogan.
Pfeifer, J., concurs in the foregoing opinion.

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