Case Title: Heydon v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce

Citation: 2007-Ohio-5553

Docket Number: 20071011

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2007-10-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as Heydon v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce, 116 Ohio St.3d 103, 2007-Ohio-5553.] 
 
 
HEYDON, APPELLEE, v. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF 
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, APPELLANT. 
[Cite as Heydon v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce,  
116 Ohio St.3d 103, 2007-Ohio-5553.] 
Court of appeals’ judgment reversed on the authority of Hughes v. Ohio Dept. of 
Commerce, and cause remanded to the trial court to dismiss the appeal. 
(No. 2007-1011 — Submitted September 18, 2007 — Decided October 24, 2007.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Summit County,  
No. 23391, 2007-Ohio-1818. 
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{¶ 1} The discretionary appeal is accepted. 
{¶ 2} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of 
Hughes v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce, 114 Ohio St.3d 47, 2007-Ohio-2877, 868 
N.E.2d 246, and the cause is remanded to the trial court with instructions to 
dismiss the appeal consistently with Hughes v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce. 
 
MOYER, C.J., and LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR, LANZINGER, and 
CUPP, JJ., concur. 
 
O’DONNELL, J., concurs separately. 
 
PFEIFER, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his separate opinion in 
Hughes v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce, 114 Ohio St.3d 47, 2007-Ohio-2877, 868 
N.E.2d 246. 
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O’DONNELL, J., concurring. 
{¶ 3} I concur with the court’s decision and write to clarify that the law, 
post-Hughes, still requires that a party desiring to appeal from an adverse decision 
of an administrative agency must file the original notice of appeal with the agency 
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and a copy of that notice with the clerk of the court in order to vest the court with 
jurisdiction to hear the appeal.  Here, that procedure was not followed, and the 
court never obtained jurisdiction over the case.  Accordingly, for the reasons 
stated in my dissent in Hughes, I concur with the decision to remand with 
instructions to dismiss this appeal and add that this ought to have been the result 
in Hughes as well. 
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Stark & Knoll Co., L.P.A., Harry A. Tipping, Christopher A. Tipping, and 
Donald R. Scherer, for appellee. 
 
Marc Dann, Attorney General, Elise Porter, Acting Solicitor General, 
Stephen P. Carney and Robert J. Krummen, Deputy Solicitors, and Theodore L. 
Klecker, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant. 
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