Ramsdell v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission

The interpretation of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission’s governing statute and accompanying Administrative Code provisions is at issue in this case. Reading R.C. 4112.06(H) in conjunction with the correlative Administrative Code provisions, the court of appeals found that a petition for judicial review of a commission order must be filed within thirty days of the mailing of the order and that the thirty-day filing period may not be extended by application of the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure. For the reasons which follow, we affirm the findings of the court of appeals.

Appellant claims that…