State Ex Rel. DiFranco v. City of South Euclid

{¶ 1} This is the appeal of a public-records mandamus case, filed initially in the Eighth District Court of Appeals. Appellant, Emilie DiFranco, made a public-records request to which the clerk of appellee city of South Euclid’s council responded, stating that he would forward the requested information after review by the finance and law departments. However, because of an internal breakdown in communication, the city did not fulfill the request for nearly six months. Upon DiFranco’s filing of a claim for a writ of mandamus in the court of appeals, the oversight was discovered, and the city…