Case Title: Poe v. Trumbull Cty.

Citation: 1998-Ohio-246

Docket Number: 19972127

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1998-06-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
POE v. TRUMBULL COUNTY ET AL. 
[Cite as Poe v. Trumbull Cty. (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Actions — Standing to sue and obtain judgment for compensatory damages from 
county when prosecuting attorney’s office divulges expunged conviction. 
(No. 97-2127 — Submitted April 20, 1998 — Decided June 24, 1998.) 
ON ORDER from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 
Eastern Division, Certifying a Question of State Law, No. 4:97CV0180. 
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Nancy Grim; Goldman & Rosen and Frank E. Steel, for respondent. 
 
Smith, Marshall, Weaver & Vergon and Frederick P. Vergon, Jr., for 
petitioners. 
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern 
Division, has certified the following question to us: 
 
“Where the plaintiff demonstrates that a prior conviction was expunged by 
the Common Pleas Court that had entered the conviction, and following notice of 
the expungement to the office of the county prosecuting attorney the fact of the 
prior conviction is revealed to the plaintiff’s employer by an employee of the 
county prosecuting attorney’s office in the same county in which the expungement 
had been ordered, does this plaintiff have standing to sue and obtain judgment for 
compensatory damages against the county under O.R.C. [Sections] 2953.32 and 
2953.35?” 
 
The certified question is answered in the negative. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.