# Rice v. CertainTeed Corp.

> Ohio Supreme Court · February 10, 1999 · 84 Ohio St. 3d 417

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6778768

## Case

- **Full name:** Rice v. CertainTeed Corporation
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 10, 1999
- **Citations:** 84 Ohio St. 3d 417; 704 N.E.2d 1217
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Stratton
- **Judges:** Cook, Douglas, Moyer, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stratton, Sweeney
- **Cited by:** 94 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Declined to follow by Cleveland Mobile Radio Sales v. Verizon, Unpublished Decision (10-13-2005), 2005 Ohio 5439 (2005).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6778768

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- rejecting employer's reliance on use of word "punitive damages" elsewhere in human rights statutes to "[buttress] its position that the word 'damages' standing alone does not include punitives" because existence of specific provisions capping or flooring punitive damages "pres…
- noting that the availability of the remedy of punitive damages does not make a statute penal in nature and that “a law is not penal merely because it imposes an extraordinary liability on a wrongdoer in favor of a person wronged, which is not limited to damages suffered by him”
- finding that ch. 4112 provides “broad relief which is sufficiently comprehensive to vindicate the policy goals set forth in that statute.”
- finding that the term “damages” in R.C. 4112.99 is “an inclusive term embracing the panoply of legally recognized pecuniary relief’ such as compensatory and punitive damages
- holding that Ohio Revised Code § 4112.99 “authorizes an award of punitive damages in civil employment discrimination actions.”

## Opinion text

Lundberg Stratton, J.,
concurring. I concur in the syllabus and judgment only.

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