Legal Opinion
Robert L. Simon v. Simmons Foods, Inc., Formerly Known as Simmons Industries, Inc., Intervenor, the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 27, 1995No. 94-2421PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Robert L. Simon, a security guard at Simmons Foods, Inc. (“Simmons Foods”) was suspended without pay on January 8, 1987, and discharged eleven days later for making “false and malicious statements to a member of the general public” concerning the company's operations. A number of events preceded Simon’s discharge, all of which need not be recited here. Suffice it to say that at the time of Simon’s discharge, Simmons Foods, which operates a chicken producing and processing plant in Southwest City, Missouri, was being investigated by a U.S. government task force for…
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