Case Title: State ex rel. Natl. Employers Network Alliance, Inc. v. Ryan

Citation: 2010-Ohio-578

Docket Number: 20091592

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
State ex rel. Natl. Employers Network Alliance, Inc. v. Ryan, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-578.] 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2010-OHIO-578 
THE STATE EX REL. NATIONAL EMPLOYERS  
NETWORK ALLIANCE, INC. v. RYAN, ADMR. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State ex rel. Natl. Employers Network Alliance, Inc. v. Ryan, 
Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-578.] 
Workers’ compensation — Availability of administrative appeal precludes relief 
by mandamus. 
(No. 2009-1592 — Submitted January 12, 2010 — Decided February 24, 2010.) 
IN MANDAMUS. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶ 1} Relator, National Employers Network Alliance, Inc., seeks a writ 
of mandamus from this court but admits that it did not pursue the administrative 
appeals available to it.  Mandamus cannot issue when the relator has an adequate 
remedy at law.  State ex rel. Berger v. McMonagle (1983), 6 Ohio St.3d 28, 6 
OBR 50, 451 N.E.2d 225.  An administrative appeal generally constitutes an 
adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law that precludes a writ of mandamus.  
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
2 
 
State ex rel. Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc. v. Cincinnati, 118 Ohio St.3d 131, 
2008-Ohio-1966, 886 N.E.2d 839, ¶ 23. 
{¶ 2} We hereby grant respondent administrator’s motion for judgment 
on the pleadings and deny relator’s request for a writ of mandamus.  Relator’s 
motion to strike is not well taken and is overruled. 
Writ denied. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, Roger P. Sugarman, David M. McCarty, and 
R. Kevin Kerns, for relator. 
Richard Cordray, Attorney General, and Gerald H. Waterman, Assistant 
Attorney General, for respondent. 
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