Hughes v. Bodine Aluminum, Inc.

Introduction

On January 22, 2008, Anthony Dismuke, a supervisor at Bodine Aluminum, Inc. (Bodine) was terminated after an internal corporate investigation for “having been involved in soliciting and receiving favors from temporaries in exchange for improved employment stability.” Dismuke had previously fired Schneider Hughes (Hughes) on November 27, 2006. Hughes filed an internal complaint the day he was terminated, alleging that he was discharged for refusing to comply with Dis-muke’s requests for bribes. The trial court granted summary judgment to Bo-dine in Hughes’s subsequent…