Waddy v. Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
McMurray, Presiding Judge.
Jewel Waddy asserted an action against her former employer, Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center (“Scottish Rite”), for intentional infliction of emotional distress, alleging Scottish Rite trumped up malignant charges against her as an excuse for discharging her from employment. Specifically, Waddy alleged that Scottish Rite leveled these false charges “as retaliation for [her] filing a Worker’s Compensation claim” and that “[c]ertain named employees of Scottish Rite began to plan and/or conspire to have [her] terminated because of certain private hostilities they…
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