Obu v. Ohio Department of Aging

Holly True Shaver, Magistrate.

{¶ 1} This matter was tried to a magistrate of the court on the issue of liability. Plaintiff asserts that his termination from defendant’s employment was based upon racial and religious discrimination. Plaintiff also asserts a claim of “professional defamation.”

{¶ 2} Plaintiff, Kwanz M. Obu, an African-American Muslim, was employed by defendant from 1990 to 1999 as a program oversight assistant. His job duties included developing policies and procedures for the collection of aggregate statistical data with regard to services that are provided to the elderly.…