GREER-BURGER v. TEMESI

No. 2006-1616.

116 Ohio St.3d 324 (2007)

2007-Ohio-6442

GREER-BURGER, APPELLEE, v. TEMESI, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Dann, Attorney General, Elise Porter and Benjamin Mizer, Deputy Solicitors, Susan Sullivan, Assistant Solicitor, and Wayne D. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

Summers and Vargas Co., L.P.A., William Lawrence Summers, and Edwin J. Vargas; and Frantz Ward L.L.P., and Kelly Summers Lawrence, for appellant.

Gittes & Schulte, Frederick M. Gittes, and Kathaleen B. Schulte, urging affirmance for amici curiae, the Ohio Employment Lawyers Association and the Committee Against Sexual Harassment.


O'CONNOR, J.

{¶ 1} This is a case of first impression that requires us to weigh the statutory rights of an employee to seek redress for claims of discrimination without retaliation against the constitutional right of an employer to petition the courts for redress after prevailing in the employee's cause of action against him. For the reasons that follow, we hold that an employer is not barred from filing a well-grounded, objectively...

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