Ahmad v. AK Steel Corp.

{¶2} I concur in the decision to dismiss the discretionary appeal as having been improvidently accepted and the certified conflict as having been improvidently recognized. I write separately to respond to the dissent’s contention that we should answer the question of what effect, if any, a violation of an administrative rule has on the open-and-obvious-hazard doctrine in this specific case.

{¶ 3} A hallmark of judicial restraint is to rule only on those cases that present an actual controversy. To do otherwise — to simply answer a hypothetical question merely for the sake of answering it —…