Kidwell v. Sybaritic, Inc.

In Nordling v. N. States Power Co., 478 N.W.2d 498, 499 (Minn.1991), the supreme court held that in-house attorneys can sue for wrongful discharge. In the course of that decision, the supreme court suggested that in-house attorneys might similarly sue under the whistleblower statute. Id. at 504. In today’s opinion, however, the majority constructs an exception to the statute that strips an in-house attorney of whistleblower protection for exposing illegalities within the corporate structure. Because this duty-rule exception has no support in the text of the whistleblower statute, I…