State ex rel. East Manufacturing Corp. v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission

We hold that the court of appeals erred in dismissing the complaint and in failing to deny the writ pursuant to the commission’s motion for summary judgment. We now exercise our plenary authority in extraordinary actions and deny the writ as if it had been originally filed in this court. State, ex rel. Natalina Food Co., v. Ohio Civil Rights Comm. (1990), 55 Ohio St.3d 98, 562 N.E.2d 1383.

East Manufacturing first maintains that alleging in the complaint, or establishing on the merits, a lack of an adequate remedy is unnecessary if the commission patently and unambiguously lacked jurisdiction.

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