Rambo v. Cohen

BAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant George Rambo, a water treatment technician at the Pendleton Reformatory, initiated this defamation action against then Pendleton Superintendent Edward Cohn and the State of Indiana. The trial court dismissed the action due to Rambo's failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Administrative Adjudication Act 2 (AAA) and then granted summary judgment to the defendants on the basis of immunity under the Indiana Tort Claims Act (ITCA). 3

We reverse the dismissal and affirm the summary judgment. 4

FACTS

Rambo has been an employee of the Indiana Department of…