A former City of Columbia employee who sued the city over allegations it violated Missouri's whistleblower statute has won her appeal.
The original case was dismissed in favor of the city, but the Western District Court of Appeals overturned that ruling Tuesday sending the case back to Boone County.
Colleen Spurlock was a city management fellow first hired in July 2020. Her partner, Kyle Rieman, who now is Boone County auditor, also accused the city of retaliation in relation to the attendance of a city council meeting in June 2021. He filed a similar wrongful dismissal suit in June 2022, which also was dismissed in favor of the city in October. Rieman has not yet filed an appeal based on available online court filings.
Spurlock filed her lawsuit the day prior to the retirement of former Columbia City Manager John Glascock in January 2022. A hearing was held by June, but the case was dismissed, hence Spurlock's appeal. The suit was directed at the city and Glascock and issues raised in her complaint directly name Glascock, specifically an abuse of authority.
Spurlock had one point in her appeal that Judge J. Hasbrouck Jacobs was wrong to dismiss her case. The appeals court agreed and so the case will be tried again to more align with the arguments raised in the appeal.
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