Case Name: Burger, Appellee, v. City of Cleveland Heights, Appellant, et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1999-11-17
Citations: 87 Ohio St. 3d 188
Docket Number: No. 97-1870
Parties: Burger, Appellee, v. City of Cleveland Heights, Appellant, et al.
Judges: Douglas, Resnick, F.E, Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 87
Pages: 188–200

Head Matter:
Burger, Appellee, v. City of Cleveland Heights, Appellant, et al.
[Cite as Burger v. Cleveland Hts. (1999), 87 Ohio St.3d 188.]
(No. 97-1870
Submitted September 29, 1998
Resubmitted August 25, 1999
Decided November 17, 1999.)
Javitch, Block, Eisen & Rathbone and Michael D. Linn, for appellee.
John H. Gibbon, Director of Law, and Laure A. Wagner, First Assistant Director of Law, for appellant.
McDonald, Hopkins, Burke & Haber Co., L.P.A., and Thomas C. Schrader, for Payto Architects, Inc.
McCarthy, Palmer, Volkema, Boyd & Thomas and Michael S. Miller, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Walter & Haverfield, P.L.L., and R. Todd Hunt, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Township Association and Cuyahoga County Law Directors Association.
John E. Gotherman and Malcolm C. Douglas, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Municipal League, Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association, and County Commissioners Association of Ohio.

Opinion:
The judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the appeal for lack of a final appealable order is affirmed on the authority of State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. Sheward (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 451, 715 N.E.2d 1062.
Douglas, Resnick, F.E, Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Douglas and Resnick, JJ., concur separately.
Moyer, C.J., Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.
Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.