State Ex Rel. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Ryan

WELLIVER, Judge.

Relator, McDonnell Douglas Corporation challenges the jurisdiction of the trial court in a lawsuit alleged to be a workers’ compensation matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. Respondent denied relator’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals, Eastern District denied relator’s writ of prohibition. We issued our preliminary rule in prohibition, and now make that rule absolute.

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