What You Need to Know

• Former Henry County schoolteacher's whistleblower lawsuit revived after Supreme Court of Georgia determines one of three adverse employment actions not time-barred.
• High Court ruling partially reverses Georgia Court of Appeals' affirmation of Henry County Superior Court's summary judgment grant to school district.
• Justices ruled school district’s formal termination of teacher had been separate and distinct from preceding verbal threat of termination and request for resignation.

A former Henry County elementary schoolteacher will get to revive an expired whistleblower complaint, after the Supreme Court of Georgia determined it’d been timely filed within a year of the employee receiving notice of her termination as an alleged action of retaliation.

Now potential damages that had been dismissed as time-barred might be eligible for review as the case makes it way back to Henry County Superior Court.

Former Superior Court Judge Trea Pipkin of the Flint Judicial Circuit in Henry County, Georgia. (Courtesy photo)

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