ESTATE OF MIKULSKI v. CENTERIOR ENERGY CORP.

No. 107108.

133 N.E.3d 899 (2019)

2019-Ohio-983

ESTATE OF Jerome R. MIKULSKI, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CENTERIOR ENERGY CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

RELEASED AND JOURNALIZED: March 21, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell G. Blair , Tracy S. Johnson , Ronald M. McMillan , Calfee, Halter & Griswold, L.L.P., The Calfee Building, 1405 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, Zachary Faigen , Allen L. Lanstra , Peter B. Morrison , Douglas A. Smith , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, 300 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90071, ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANTS.

William Craig Bashein , Bashein & Bashein Co., L.P.A., 35th Floor Terminal Tower, 50 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, Eric H. Zagrans , Zagrans Law Firm, L.L.C., 5077 Waterford Drive, Suite 302, Sheffield, Ohio 44035, Subodh Chandra , Chandra Law Firm, L.L.C., 1265 West 6th Street, Suite 400, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, Joshua R. Cohen , Cohen, Rosenthal & Kramer, L.P.A., 3208 Clinton Avenue, 1 Clinton Place, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, Steven M. Goldberg , Steven M. Goldberg Co., L.P.A., 31300 Solon Road, Suite 12, Solon, Ohio 44139, Daniel R. Karon , Karon, L.L.C., 700 West St. Clair Avenue, Suite 200, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, James M. Kelley, III , Elk & Elk Co., Ltd., 6105 Parkland Boulevard, Suite 200, Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124, Robert E. Kennedy , Daniel P. Goetz , Weisman, Kennedy & Berris Co., L.P.A., 1600 Midland Building, 101 Prospect Avenue, West, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, Jack Landskroner , Landskroner Grieco Merriman, L.L.C., 1360 West 9th Street, Suite 200, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, Dennis R. Lansdowne , Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber, L.L.P., 1001 Lakeside Avenue, East, Suite 1700, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, Eben O. McNair IV , Schwarzwald McNair & Fusco, L.L.P., 1215 Superior Avenue, Suite 225, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-3527, David M. Paris , Nurenberg Paris Heller & McCarthy, 600 Superior Avenue, East, Suite 1200, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, Patrick J. Perotti , Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A., 60 South Park Place, Painesville, Ohio 44077, Adam Savett , Savett Law Offices, L.L.C., 6100 Oak Tree Boulevard, Suite 200, Independence, Ohio 44131, Michael F. Becker , The Becker Law Firm, L.P.A., 134 Middle Avenue, Elyria, Ohio 44035, Thomas R. Theado , Gary, Naegele & Theado, L.L.C., 401 Broadway Avenue, Unit 104, Lorain, Ohio 44052-1745, Dennis P. Barron , 582 Torrence Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208, Attorneys for Elzetta C. Mikulski.

Robert D. Gary , Jori Bloom Naegele , Gary Naegele Theado, L.L.C., Duane Building, 401 Broadway Avenue, Unit 104, Lorain, Ohio 44052-1745, Joseph M. Sellers , Michelle C. Yau , 1100 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 500, West Tower, Washington, D.C. 20005, Attorneys for Jerome R. Mikulski.

Charlotte Beck, pro se, 501 E. Orangethorpe, 27 Magnolia Via, Anaheim, California 92801-0000, For Charlotte Beck.

BEFORE: Boyle, P.J., E.A. Gallagher, J., and Sheehan, J.


JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

{¶1} Defendants-appellants, Centerior Energy Corporation and First Energy Corp., as successor-in-interest to Centerior Energy Corporation (collectively "defendants"), appeal from the trial court's order granting class certification. They raise six assignments of error for...

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