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FI&C is now 3-0 before the Supreme Court of Ohio since 2000.
Charlie Faruki and Jeff Sharkey won an appeal at the Supreme Court of Ohio on behalf of FI&C client The Dayton Power and Light Company, which permits DP&L to recover $18 million in costs that it incurred associated with its customer billing system. With that win, FI&C has three straight wins at the Supreme Court of Ohio since 2000.
On September 29, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted a Motion to Dismiss filed by FI&C on behalf of a brokerage firm and several independent brokers in a nationwide securities action relating to viaticals.
The Court adopted in full the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation. Links: http://www.ficlaw.com/court/j_rose_order.pdf & http://www.ficlaw.com/court/report_and_recommendations.pdf. Jeff Ireland and Marty Foos represented several defendants out of more than 500 defendants named in the securities lawsuit. FI&C argued successfully that the securities and related claims were deficient under the pleading standards set forth in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b). The Court also held in favor of FI&C's clients on an issue which had not been decided by either the Sixth Circuit or the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio -- that the longer statute of limitations period in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act does not apply retroactively to claims time-barred before it was enacted in 2002.
FI&C was awarded a Dayton Business Journal Health Care Hero award.
The award honors organizations that make a positive impact on health care in the community, and was awarded to FI&C for its efforts to improve employee health care, including FI&C's provision of workout equipment to employees and ongoing efforts to educate employees about health care issues.
Jeff Ireland completed his two-year term as the Chairman of The Salvation Army Advisory Board in Dayton.
He has been a member of the Board for 13 years. During his tenure as Chair, Dayton was selected as the recipient of a $69 million Kroc Center, and he is spearheading the campaign to raise $6 million to assure construction of the Center in north Dayton.
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