The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Cleveland police union’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling keeping in place the city’s firing of Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014.

Four of the court’s seven justices declined jurisdiction to review the 8th District Court of Appeals’ March finding that the union failed to serve the attorneys for the city of Cleveland with court filings at it challenged an arbitrator’s decision upholding Loehmann’s firing. The city fired the then-rookie officer for lying on his job application to become a police officer.

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The justices declined jurisdiction to review the 8th District Court of Appeals holding that the police union failed to properly deliver legal briefs to the city during its challenge of Loehmann's firing.

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