Tiede v. CorTrust Bank, N.A.

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Dorothy Tiede brought this retaliatory discharge action against CorTrust Bank, alleging that she was discharged for filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) after senior bank officials told her not to file them. The reports were allegedly required under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), 31 U.S.C. § 5311 (2001). CorTrust moved for judgment on the pleadings asserting: that Tiede’s state law claim, arising under the public policy exception to the at-will employment doctrine, was preempted by the National Bank Acts (NBA), 12 U.S.C. § 24…