State ex rel. Cartmell v. Dorrian

The syllabus to State, ex rel. Shine, v. Garofolo (1982), 69 Ohio St. 2d 253, provides:

“An employee in the classified civil service who alleges she has been removed from her employment has a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law by way of appeal to the State Personnel Board of Review under R. C. 124.34, even though her employer fails to file an order of removal with the board of review.”

The Shine case implicitly overruled prior decisions1 of this court which held that the filing of an order of removal of a classified civil service employee is a jurisdictional…