State Ex Rel. Schachter v. Ohio Public Employees Retirement Board

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandamus to compel the retirement board of the Public Employees Retirement System (“PERS”) to find that Patti Schachter is a public employee, credit her with PERS service credit, and assess Summit County for all sums due to PERS for the service credit. Because PERS and its retirement board did not abuse their discretion in concluding that res judicata barred Schachter’s claim for service credit, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

First Request for PERS Service Credit

{¶ 2} The Akron Bar Association, with the cooperation and…