Legal Opinion
Curlee v. Kootenai County Fire & Rescue
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided October 16, 2008No. 34460PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORTON, Justice.
Appellant Mary C. Curlee (Curlee), a former employee of Respondent Kootenai County Fire and Rescue (KCFR), was discharged on October 13, 2004, after her notes detailing the minute-by-minute activities of two of her coworkers, Jackie Sharp (Sharp) and Lisa Wheeler (Wheeler), to whom she assigned the fictitious names “Muffy” and “Bufiy,” were discovered by Sharp on Curlee’s desk. Curlee filed suit against KCFR, alleging that she was fired in violation of the Idaho Protection of Public Employees Act as her notes documented the waste of public funds, property, or manpower. The…
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