Legal Opinion
Fields v. Summit County Executive Branch
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided December 2, 1992No. 15567PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cacioppo, Presiding Judge.
On August 9, 1990, appellant, Handson Fields, was hired as a custodial worker at the Summit County Jail. On August 31, 1990, Fields’s supervisor received reports that Fields had driven a county vehicle to a suspected crack house and that he was using drugs or smuggling drugs into the jail or both. The supervisor discussed the reports with Fields and then sent him home. Fields was instructed to report to the personnel office on September 4, 1990, for a predisciplinary hearing, but no hearing was held.
On September 5, 1990, Fields received a letter from Summit County.…
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- Walton v. Montgomery County Welfare DepartmentOhio Supreme Court · 1982
- Bashford v. City of PortsmouthOhio Supreme Court · 1990
- Local 4501, Communications Workers of America v. Ohio State UniversityOhio Supreme Court · 1990
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