Crestmont Partnership v. Dep. of Health, Unpublished Decision (10-14-1999)
Crestmont Partnership v. Dep. of Health, Unpublished Decision (10-14-1999)
Opinion of the Court
The test generally applied to a motion for reconsideration in the court of appeals is whether the motion calls to the attention of the court an obvious error in its decision or raises an issue for consideration that was not considered at all or was not fully considered by the court when it should have been. Matthews v. Matthews (1981),
First, the trial court did not dismiss appellant's claims against ODH on the grounds of mootness. Rather, the trial court denied ODH's separate motion to dismiss on grounds of mootness. "An issue is moot when a determination can have no practical effect on the existing controversy." State v. Holloway (Sept. 17, 1998), Franklin App. No. 97APA05-622, unreported (1998 Opinions 4185, 4197) (Lazarus, J., concurring separately.) Here, having already concluded that it did not have jurisdiction over the entire action because of the jurisdictional priority rule (the legal basis of the non-state appellees' motion to dismiss), the trial court determined that it need not address ODH's motion. In particular, the trial court stated:
Since this Court has declined jurisdiction in this matter, motion to dismiss of defendants Ryan and ODOH need not be decided as this matter is rendered moot by the above decision. Thus, the motion of defendants William Ryan and the Ohio Department of Health to dismiss is hereby DENIED as moot.
Thus, contrary to appellees' contention here, the trial court dismissed appellant's entire complaint, including appellant's claim against ODH, on the basis of the jurisdictional priority rule.
Second, appellant's single assignment of error was not limited to only the trial court's resolution of appellant's claims against the non-state appellees. Rather, appellant's assignment of error broadly stated that "[t]he trial court erred as a matter of law in granting the non-state appellees' motion to dismiss under Ohio Civil Rule 12(B)(1)." As discussed above, the trial court's resolution of the non-state appellees' motion to dismiss included the dismissal of appellant's entire complaint, including its claim against ODH. Moreover, since the trial court denied ODH's motion to dismiss, appellant had no reason, nor legal basis, to appeal that decision. See, generally, Ferrell v. Standard Oil Co. (1984),
Appellees have not raised an obvious error in our prior decision, nor have they raised an issue that was not previously considered. Accordingly, we deny appellees' motion for reconsideration.
Motion for reconsideration denied.
DESHLER and TYACK, JJ., concur.
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