Holbrook v. Lexisnexis

Grady, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a final order of the court of common pleas granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs claims for relief alleging employment discrimination on account of his race.

{¶2} Plaintiff, Terence Holbrook, an African-American male, had been employed by defendant LexisNexis, d.b.a. Reed Elsevier, Inc. from July 16, 1984, until May 19, 2004, when he was fired for activating a fire alarm on May 13, 2004, at an exit in the northern stairwell of Building 5 on LexisNexis’s campus in Miamisburg. At the time of his termination, Holbrook…