Legal Opinion
Joseph Walsh v. Teresa Wahlert and the State of Iowa
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 15, 2018No. 17-0202PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
APPEL, Justice.
In this case, we consider wrongful-termination-of-employment and failure-to-hire claims brought by Joseph Walsh, a former chief administrative law judge of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Bureau in Iowa Workforce Development (IWD), against the then-IWD director Teresa Wahlert and against the State. Walsh brought two claims. First, Walsh alleged retaliation under the whistleblower protection provisions of Iowa Code section 70A.28 (2014). The thrust of Walsh's whistleblower claim was that he was fired because he reached out to other government officials in an attempt to…
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