Yackshaw v. John Carroll University Board of Trustees

Patricia A. Blackmon, Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide several issues: whether a tenured professor at a private university has a right to a trial de novo on his breach-of-contract claim or whether review is limited to the record of the university’s hearing to terminate his contract; and whether there are genuine issues for trial on his claim for negligent termination and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Dr. Robert R. Yackshaw, plaintiff-appellant, timely appeals the decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas granting of summary judgment to John Carroll University,…