Case Name: Staples, Dir., et al., Appellees, v. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Local 11, AFL-CIO, et al., Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1987-07-15
Citations: 31 Ohio St. 3d 330
Docket Number: No. 87-360
Parties: Staples, Dir., et al., Appellees, v. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Local 11, AFL-CIO, et al., Appellants.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Locher, Holmes, Wright and H. Brown, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 31
Pages: 330–332

Head Matter:
Staples, Dir., et al., Appellees, v. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Local 11, AFL-CIO, et al., Appellants.
[Cite as Staples v. Ohio Civ. Serv. Emp. Assn./American Fed. of State, Cty. & Mun. Emp., Local 11, AFL-CIO (1987), 31 Ohio St. 3d 602.]
(No. 87-360
Decided July 15, 1987.)
Sponseller & Segel, Nancy L. Sponseller and Benjamin B. Segel, for appellees Seth Staples, Director of Hamilton County Department of Human Services; Hamilton County Department of Human Services; and Hamilton County Board of Commissioners.
Joyce Goldstein, Daniel Scott Smith, Kirschner, Weinberg & Dempsey, Richard Kirschner and John J. Sullivan, for appellant OCSEA/AFSCME, Local 11, AFL-CIO.
Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, Loren L. Braverman and Eleanor J. Tschugunov, for appellant State Employment Relations Board.
Cloppert, Portman, Sauter, Latanick & Foley, Robert W. Sauter and Russell E. Carnahan, urging denial of the motion to dismiss for amicus curiae, Ohio Education Association.

Opinion:
The joint motion of appellees and the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 11, AFL-CIO, to dismiss this cause as moot is sustained and this cause (case No. 86AP-738 below) is dismissed.
Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Locher, Holmes, Wright and H. Brown, JJ., concur.
Douglas, J., dissents.