{"id":6093,"date":"2021-12-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:06:18","slug":"no-sovereign-immunity-from-retaliatory-discharge-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6093","title":{"rendered":"No Sovereign Immunity from Retaliatory Discharge Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Statutes governing workers\u2019 compensation allow an action for employer\u2019s retaliation against a claimant\u2019s exercise of those rights, and that action is within the statutes\u2019 waiver of sovereign immunity for political subdivisions, including defendant school district. School district\u2019s motion for summary judgment established facts without genuine dispute, but did not entitle school district to a favorable judgment. Court of Appeals reverses circuit court\u2019s summary judgment dismissing plaintiff\u2019s action for retaliatory discharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=180260\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Travis Poke vs. Independence School District<\/em><\/a><br>Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District &#8211; WD84198<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statutes governing workers\u2019 compensation allow an action for employer\u2019s retaliation against a claimant\u2019s exercise of those rights, and that action is within the statutes\u2019 waiver of sovereign immunity for political subdivisions, including defendant school district. School district\u2019s motion for summary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}