Windley v. United Disability Services, Unpublished Decision (12-19-2001)
Windley v. United Disability Services, Unpublished Decision (12-19-2001)
Opinion of the Court
Windley filed a motion for reconsideration in the trial court on February 27, 2001. United opposed the motion. On March 7, 2001, Windley filed a notice of appeal in this Court; case number 20484 was assigned to the appeal. On March 16, 2001, the trial court struck Windley's motion for reconsideration as a nullity. Windley filed a motion in the trial court to convert his motion for reconsideration into a motion to vacate the trial court's February 6, 2001 order.
This Court, on March 13, 2001, ordered Windley to file a memorandum, with any necessary supporting materials, demonstrating that the trial court's February 6, 2001 journal entry is a final appealable order. This Court's March 13, 2001 order provided: "If [Windley] fails to respond, [the] appeal shall be dismissed." Windley failed to respond, and this Court dismissed the appeal for Windley's non-compliance with our order.
On May 2, 2001, the trial court issued an order stating: "It is hereby the order of this Court that [United's] Motion for Summary Judgment is granted as to each of [Windley's] causes of action. Accordingly, having dismissed all of [Windley's] claims, this constitutes a Final Appealable Order."2 On June 1, 2001, Windley filed a notice of appeal from the May 2, 2001 journal entry.
The notice of appeal in the present case was filed on June 1, 2001, eighty-five days beyond the App.R. 4(A) deadline. Because Windley's notice is untimely, this Court does not have jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
The Court finds that there were reasonable grounds for this appeal.
We order that a special mandate issue out of this Court, directing the, County of, State of Ohio, to carry this judgment into execution. A certified copy of this journal entry shall constitute the mandate, pursuant to App.R. 27.
Immediately upon the filing hereof, this document shall constitute the journal entry of judgment, and it shall be file stamped by the Clerk of the Court of Appeals at which time the period for review shall begin to run. App.R. 22(E).
Costs taxed to.
Exceptions.
SLABY, P.J., CARR, J. CONCUR.
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