Title: Queen City Lodge No. 69, Fraternal Order of Police v. State Emp. Relations Bd.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Queen City Lodge No. 69, Fraternal Order of Police v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 120 
Ohio St.3d 1221, 2009-Ohio-255.] 
 
 
QUEEN CITY LODGE NO. 69, FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, APPELLANT, v. 
STATE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as Queen City Lodge No. 69, Fraternal Order of Police v. State Emp. 
Relations Bd., 120 Ohio St.3d 1221, 2009-Ohio-255.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently accepted. 
(No. 2007-2269 — Submitted November 19, 2008 — Decided January 28, 2009.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-060782, 
174 Ohio App.3d 570, 2007-Ohio-5741. 
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{¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently 
accepted. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Hardin, Lazarus, Lewis & Marks, L.L.C., Stephen S. Lazarus, and 
Kimberly A. Rutowski, for appellant. 
Richard Cordray, Attorney General, Benjamin C. Mizer, Solicitor General, 
and Anne Light Hoke, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee State Employment 
Relations Board. 
John P. Curp, City Solicitor, and Richard Ganulin, Assistant City 
Solicitor, for appellee city of Cincinnati. 
Paul L. Cox, Chief Counsel, Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio, Inc., 
urging reversal for amicus curiae Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio, Inc. 
Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn Co., L.P.A., Stephen L. Byron, Stephen J. 
Smith, and Asim Z. Haque; and John Gotherman, urging affirmance for amicus 
curiae The Ohio Municipal League. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Frost Brown Todd, L.L.C., Donald L. Crain, and Thomas B. Allen, urging 
affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Public Employer Labor Relations Association. 
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