Stoebermann v. Beacon Journal Publishing Co.

Dickinson, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} The Beacon Journal Publishing Company terminated Michael Attalla as one of its independent-contractor newspaper carriers after he refused to deliver Kiwanis emergency medical flyers to all the households along his routes. It terminated Janet Stoebermann after a substitute she arranged refused to deliver copies of the Wall Street Journal. The trial court granted summary judgment to the Beacon Journal on Attalla’s claims because it determined that there were no genuine issues of material fact and that the Beacon Journal was entitled to judgment as a matter of…