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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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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.
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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.
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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
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 25 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Apr 11 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 12, 2026)