Evelyn Susan Hafley v. Janette M. Lohman

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue in this case is whether the eleven defendants, current and former employees of the state of Missouri, are entitled to qualified immunity. The District Court 1 denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint on the basis of qualified immunity, and we affirm.

Evelyn Susan Hafley is an administrative coordinator with the field services bureau of the Missouri Department of Revenue. In her complaint, Hafley alleges that defendant Ellie James instructed her “to hide a file containing information about the Department of Revenue’s University City Fee Office”…