Although count one has been dismissed, former Greenbrier Valley Airport Director Stephen Snyder’s case against the Greenbrier County Commission and Airport Authority continues through the Greenbrier County Circuit Court.
According to the initial complaint, in 2015 Snyder began investigating a “former GCAA manager and former chief financial officer,” allegedly “improperly abused their positions and misused GCAA funding and property to their own financial gain” and “numerous instances of potential waste, fraud, and wrongdoing involving” a Greenbrier County Commission member. The initial and amended complaints lay out three counts Snyder seeks to have heard by a jury:
– Count one is a “whistle-blower claim” stating he was fired due to “repeated, good faith reports to [the commission and Airport Authority] of instances of wrongdoing and waste.”
– Count two is a Harless claim stating his termination was done in retaliation for these reports.
– Count three is “the intentional infliction of emotional distress,” stating that the “termination was intended by design by the defendants to be extremely embarrassing and as a form of punishment and retaliation.”
A motion to dismiss the case was filed by the defense, calling any and all claims to whistle-blower protections into question. This is due to a time restriction needed to make the claim – the statute of limitations was changed by the West Virginia Legislature in 2020, expanding the whistle-blower filing time from 180 days after...
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