Case Title: Akron v. Ohio Dept. of Ins.

Citation: 2015-Ohio-2926

Docket Number: 2014-0738

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2015-07-23T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
Akron v. Ohio Dept. of Ins., Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-2926.] 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2015-OHIO-2926 
CITY OF AKRON ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF 
INSURANCE ET AL., APPELLEES. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as Akron v. Ohio Dept. of Ins., Slip Opinion  
No. 2015-Ohio-2926.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently accepted. 
(No. 2014-0738—Submitted June 9, 2015—Decided July 23, 2015.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, Nos. 13-AP-473,  
13-AP-484, and 13-AP-496, 2014-Ohio-96. 
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{¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently 
allowed. 
 
{¶ 2} The court orders that the opinion of the court of appeals may not be 
cited as authority except by the parties inter se. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, and LANZINGER, JJ., concur. 
KENNEDY, FRENCH, and O’NEILL, JJ., dissent. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
 
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Roetzel & Andress, L.P.A., Paul L. Jackson, and Karen D. Adinolfi; 
Patricia Ambrose Rubright, Akron Director of Law, and Tammy Kalail, Assistant 
Director of Law, for appellee city of Akron. 
Mike DeWine, Attorney General, Eric E. Murphy, State Solicitor, Michael 
J. Hendershot, Chief Deputy Solicitor, and Jennifer S.M. Croskey, Assistant 
Attorney General, for appellee Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. 
Frantz Ward, L.L.P., and Michael E. Smith, for appellee Medical Mutual 
of Ohio. 
Larry Dean Shenise, for appellants, Timothy Metcalfe and William 
Biasella. 
Muskovitz 
& 
Lemmerbrock, 
L.L.C., 
Susannah 
Muskovitz, 
and 
Christopher C. Moses, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Fraternal Order of 
Police, Akron Lodge #7. 
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