Legal Opinion
Slack v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 11, 2019No. Case No. 1:16-cv-00130 (TNM)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. McFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
Plaintiff Robyn Slack lost her job at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ("WMATA") after refusing to act as the sole point of contact for a procurement contract, which she claimed would have violated the law. She sued WMATA for unlawful retaliation and her supervisor, Judy Mewborn, for defamation. The Court dismissed Ms. Slack's retaliation claims under the False Claims Act and the District of Columbia Protection Act because sovereign immunity barred those claims. See Slack v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth. , 325 F.Supp.3d 146, 150-51 (D.D.C. 2018) ("…
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