Cleveland Civil Service Commission v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission

In the absence of a legally significant reason for discrediting a determination of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, a common pleas court must give due deference to the commission’s resolution of evidentiary conflicts. Plumbers & Steamfitters Joint Apprenticeship Commt. v. Ohio Civil Rights Comm. (1981), 66 Ohio St. 2d 192, 20 O.O. 3d 200, 421 N.E. 2d 128; Univ. of Cincinnati v. Conrad (1980), 63 Ohio St. 2d 108, 17 O.O. 3d 65, 407 N.E. 2d 1265. Our review of this case is therefore limited to determining whether the common pleas court abused its discretion in affirming the commission’s…