State Ex Rel. Arcadia Acres v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services

{¶ 1} Appellants, Arcadia Acres and Spring Meadows Care Center (the “nursing homes”), appeal as of right from a decision of the court of appeals. In that decision, the court dismissed the nursing homes’ original action for mandamus relief on the grounds that the mandamus claim was barred by res judicata. Specifically, the nursing homes had previously brought a declaratory-judgment action for the same relief against the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (“ODJFS”), but that action was dismissed. Of particular importance was the reason for dismissal: although the trial court originally…