Strohecker v. Gwinnett County Police Department

Deen, Presiding Judge.

These appeals had their origins on June 25, 1984, when American Telephone and Telegraph Technologies, Inc. (AT&T), fired Joseph Sun from his position as design engineer, prompting Sun and his wife to file a series of lawsuits against AT&T, Joseph Strohecker and Charles Heard (Sun’s supervisors and the appellants in these cases), and other co-workers. These lawsuits variously alleged civil rights violations, terroristic phone calls, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, breach of contract, slander, and conspiracy to “wrongfully ruin his life.” All of these…