Legal Opinion
Peggy Childers v. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, a New York Corporation David Charles Seal Ray N. Brown, M.D. Robert E. Gerring
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1989No. 87-1727PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
After being discharged by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, Peggy Childers filed this action in Maryland state court against C & P and three of C & P’s employees, alleging wrongful discharge and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She claimed that her discharge was in retaliation for filing workers’ compensation claims and violated Maryland’s public policy against handicap discrimination. Defendants removed the action to federal district court, claiming that Child-ers’ state-law claims were preempted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act…
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