Musa v. Gillett Communications, Inc.

Timothy E. McMonagle, Judge.

This court is asked to decide whether the trial court appropriately granted summary judgment to defendants-appellees, Gillett Communications, Inc., WJW Television and several of its employees, and the Better Business Bureau and its employee, James Sutter (collectively, “appellees”), on the basis that the state complaint filed by plaintiffs-appellants, Jalil Ibn Musa, Cleveland Ideas Diversified, Inc. and several of its subsidiaries (collectively, “appellants”), is barred by the principle of res judicata. For the reasons that follow, we find that appellants’ claims…