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CLEVELAND – A Cuyahoga County Appeals Court has upheld an arbitrator’s ruling allowing a Cleveland police officer to get her job back after she’d been fired.

Court records show officer Shani Hannah was fired in 2013 for an incident the year before. The records show she was convicted of misdemeanor assault for stabbing and wounding a boyfriend. She got probation and orders for community service, drug-testing and anger management counseling.

An arbitrator ruled there “was not just cause” for her to be fired. The city appealed to county court and lost. Now an appeals court has also upheld the arbitrator’s ruling.

The appeals ruling says “The arbitrator found that Hannah’s termination was unreasonable and inconsistent with the City’s past disciplinary procedures, especially in light of her unblemished record.”

The appeals court wrote, “Regardless of whether they disagree with the arbitrator, the City agreed to accept the result even if it believes it is unjust.”

And the opinion says there was no evidence of “fraud, corruption, misconduct, impropriety, or mistake in the arbitrator’s decision.”

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