STATE EX REL. CORDELL v. PALLET COS., INC.

No. 2015-0163.

149 Ohio St.3d 483 (2016)

2016-Ohio-8446

THE STATE EX REL. CORDELL, APPELLEE, v. PALLET COMPANIES, INC., ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craigg E. Gould , for appellee.

Dinsmore & Shohl, L.L.P., Christen S. Hignett , and Michael L. Squillace , for appellant Pallet Companies, Inc.

Michael DeWine , Attorney General, and Lisa R. Miller , Assistant Attorney General, for appellant Industrial Commission.

Philip J. Fulton Law Office and Chelsea Fulton Rubin , urging affirmance for amici curiae, Ohio Association of Claimants' Counsel and Ohio Association for Justice.

KENNEDY, J., dissents, with an opinion.


{¶ 1} Appellee, James F. Cordell, was terminated from his employment with appellant Pallet Companies, Inc. ("Pallet") after failing a routine drug test administered soon after a workplace accident in which he was injured. Pallet concedes that Cordell's drug use did not...

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