Legal Opinion
Coutee v. Lafayette Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided August 5, 2003No. 79A04-0210-CV-513PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KIRSCH, Judge.
After Dege R. Coutee was fired from her employment at Lafayette Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. (“LNHS”), she sued and alleged that she was unlawfully discharged in retaliation for reporting what she believed to be a misuse of public resources and that her termination violated IC 22-5-3-3, Indiana’s whistle-blower statute. She appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to LNHS and raises three issues, which we consolidate and restate as follows:
I. Whether her common law claim for retaliatory discharge falls within Indiana’s public policy exception to the…
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