Legal Opinion
Beard v. Baum
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 3, 1990No. S-3229PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Justice.
Burle Beard, a State Department of Transportation (“DOT”) employee, claims that after he made public allegations of corruption at DOT, his supervisors engaged in a pattern of harassment tactics to force him to resign. Beard filed a complaint in superior court against the state and several individual supervisors alleging various causes of action including: (1) wrongful constructive discharge, (2) intentional infliction of emotional distress, (3) denial of due process, (4) violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and (5) defamation. The superior court struck the first three of these…
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