A Mississippi utility must face a general manager’s claims that his firing after reporting government incompetence and inefficiency violated his rights under state whistleblower law and the First Amendment, the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
The ruling drew guidance from the Mississippi Supreme Court, which had answered questions previously sent to it by the federal appeals court in Mark Johnson’s suit against Clarksdale Public Utilities Authority.
Johnson’s claim under the Mississippi Whistleblower Protection Act had been dismissed when a federal judge found he failed to meet the notice-of-claim and one-year deadline for suing set in the Mississippi Tort Claims Act, the ...
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