Legal Opinion
Walter Engelhardt v. Qwest Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 22, 2019No. 17-2492PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Walter Engelhardt sued Qwest Corporation, a subsidiary of CenturyLink, and Tim Buchholz, CenturyLink's operations director, alleging that CenturyLink and Buchholz terminated him in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Minnesota Whistleblower Act (MWA). He also sued for tortious interference with a prospective business relationship. Engelhardt claimed that CenturyLink and Buchholz terminated him in retaliation for legal action he had taken against the company. CenturyLink and Buchholz averred that they terminated Engelhardt for low productivity.…
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