Community Care Center of Aberdeen v. Mary Barrentine

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A nursing home employee filed a wrongful-discharge suit more than a year after she claims she was fired for reporting suspected patient abuse. Although wrongful-discharge suits in Mississippi generally must be based upon written employment contracts, she claims her suit falls under the public-policy exceptions this Court announced in McArn v. Allied Bruce-Terminix Co., Inc. 1 The issue presented is whether — as she argues — her wrongful-discharge suit is governed by the general three-year statute of limitations governing torts, 2 or — as the…