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Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County, No. 24AP-144 · judgment September 26, 2024


Certiorari denied · March 23, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established antiretaliation standards—specifically the misapplication of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework and the failure to consider temporal proximity and disparate treatment—have deprived Petitioner Tony Moody of his constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the law.

  2. Whether the lower courts fragmented and isolated analysis of evidence, in contradiction to the totality-of-the-evidence requirement, warrants this Court's intervention to clarify and correct the misapplication of both state and federal principles governing retaliatory employment actions.

  3. Whether these errors, by undermining the statutory safeguards provided by Ohio Revised Code §§4112.02(1), 4112.05(B)(1), and 4112.99, not only imperil Petitioner's individual rights but also threaten the integrity of public policy designed to protect employees from arbitrary and retaliatory discipline.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Tony Moody

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 25 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
  3. Apr 11 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 12, 2026)