Barker v. State Insurance Fund

KAUGER, J.,

with whom OPALA, J. joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part:

T1 I agree with the majority's resolution of the blacklisting claims and that both internal and external whistle-blowers establishing public policy violations should be protected from retaliatory discharge. Nevertheless, I dissent from the portion of the opinion indicating that the plaintiffs/appellants, Gary Bova (Bova), Linda Foreman (Foreman), Carla Snipes (Snipes) and Greg Valley (Valley) (collectively, employees), failed to articulate any well-defined public policy violation in support of their wrongful…