Long v. Noah's Lost Ark, Inc.

Gene Donofrio, Judge.

{¶ 1} Defendants-appellants, Noah’s Lost Ark, Inc. and Douglas and Ellen Whitehouse, appeal from a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court decision granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee, William Long.

{¶ 2} At the heart of this dispute is a ten-month-old lion cub named “Boomerang.” The Whitehouses are the operators of Noah’s Lost Ark (“Noah’s”), a nonprofit exotic animal shelter located in Berlin Center, Ohio. Appellee is an animal-rights activist from Upper Arlington, Ohio, who became involved with Alfred Guart, a reporter for the New York Post (the “Post”).

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