Wood v. Dorcas

Sherck, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment issued by the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas in favor of an employer in a wrongful termination suit. Because we conclude that the employee’s dismissal from his position was not in violation of Ohio’s whistle blower protection statutes, we affirm.

In 1987, appellee, Carl F. Dorcas, hired appellant, Douglas M. Wood, to work in his private law office. Dorcas was also employed by the city of Sylvania, Ohio, as its part-time law director. Dorcas’s law firm provided municipal prosecutors for the city in the Sylvania Municipal Court.…