Legal Opinion
Dennis L. Smith v. Iowa State University of Science and Technology and State of Iowa
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 18, 2014No. 12–1182PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Justice.
After a trial of more than two weeks, a jury and a judge awarded Dennis Smith, a writer formerly employed by the College of Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU), a total of $1,284,027.40 in damages against ISU and the State of Iowa. Smith recovered $500,000 for intentional infliction of emotional distress and an additional $784,027.40 under a whistleblowing statute for retaliation suffered because he reported managerial misconduct to ISU’s president. ISU and the State appealed, and the court of appeals affirmed the intentional infliction of emotional distress award,…
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