State Ex Rel. Gallon & Takacs Co., L.P.A. v. Conrad

Lazarus, Judge.

Relator, Gallon & Takacs Co., L.P.A., has brought this original action in mandamus to compel respondent, James Conrad, Administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”), to provide copies of “applications for certification filed by certain Managed Care Organizations with the Ohio BWC and copies of each and every document filed by each such organization in support of the organization’s application for certification.” The matter has been fully briefed and argued on stipulations of fact and is ripe for adjudication.

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