Case Ends

The Ohio Supreme Court declines to take up a fired college bookstore employee’s battle for his job, likely ending the Ohioan’s yearslong saga. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor signed the single-sentence entry…declining Andre Brady’s appeal without elaboration. He has 10 days to seek reconsideration. Brady had turned to the high court after a lower court determined in February that it lacked the jurisdiction to review core legal claims surrounding the elimination of his union job as a sales manager at the Youngstown State University bookstore. Brady lost his job of 19 years in 2016, as his employer and other public universities were being pressured by then Gov. John Kasich to reduce costs and pass the savings along to students. Brady has been fighting the layoff ever since. But both the appellate and high courts have now ended their involvement on technical grounds, so that Brady never had a chance to make his case.