Nichols v. State, Office of the Secretary

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge.

Joan M. Nichols was employed briefly as the communications director for the Office of the Secretary of State. She alleges that she was induced to accept the job offer by appellants’ false repi'esentations concerning the duties of the position. She alleges both common-law and statutory claims. The district court granted in part and denied in part appellants’ motion to dismiss Nichols’s claims on immunity grounds.

In this interlocutory appeal, we are asked to decide whether the state is immune from suit on Nichols’s statutory claim of false inducement of employment, which…