Title: State ex rel. Beck v. Indus. Comm.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as State ex rel. Beck v. Indus. Comm., 122 Ohio St.3d 33, 2009-Ohio-2365.] 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. BECK ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. INDUSTRIAL  
COMMISSION OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Beck v. Indus. Comm., 
 122 Ohio St.3d 33, 2009-Ohio-2365.] 
Appeal dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 
(No. 2008-0707 — Submitted April 21, 2009 — Decided May 27, 2009.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 04AP-1094. 
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{¶ 1} Appellants appeal from a judgment of the court of appeals denying 
a request for a status conference for a purported class. 
{¶ 2} Appellants filed an original action in the Tenth District Court of 
Appeals seeking a writ of mandamus and certification of the case as a class 
action.  On December 19, 2006, the court of appeals granted the writ but denied 
appellants’ request to certify the class.  State ex rel. Beck v. Indus. Comm., 
Franklin App. No. 04AP-1094, 2006-Ohio-6730.  Appellants did not file an 
appeal from the ruling denying certification of the class. 
{¶ 3} In February 2008, appellants filed in the court of appeals a motion 
for a status conference to review appellees’ actions with regard to all of the 
individuals who would have been in the class had the class been certified.  Noting 
that it had not upheld the request for class certification, the court of appeals 
denied the motion for status conference on February 29, 2008.  This appeal 
followed. 
{¶ 4} Appellants seek essentially through their appeal to now have the 
class certified.  But the time for consideration of that matter expired in early 2007, 
when appellants failed to timely appeal from the court of appeals’ denial of class 
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certification, and this appeal is simply an attempt to circumvent the finality of that 
previous ruling. 
{¶ 5} Accordingly, as this court has no jurisdiction to now consider class 
certification, this cause is dismissed. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Equal Justice Foundation and Judith B. Goldstein, for appellants. 
 
Richard Cordray, Attorney General, and Elise Porter and Andrew J. Alatis, 
Assistant Attorneys General, for appellees Industrial Commission of Ohio and 
Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. 
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