Hinners v. Huron

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 3652

Syllabus

public record court of claims R.C. 2743.75 R.C. 149.43 attorney-client non-responsive. Overview: Requester sought 21 e-mail chains. Respondent asserted that portions of the emails constituted attorney-client privileged material, and that some emails included within the chains were not responsive to the request for emails between two persons that \includes messages in which either of the above are copied to the correspondence.\ The special master found that emails attached through a forwarding or reply command were included by the sender as part of the email chain and, under the facts and circumstances of this case, were responsive to the terms of the request. The special master found that none of the emails contained language expressly requesting or delivering legal advice on an identified legal issue, and recommended the court grant requester's claim for production.