Employment – Public Employee – Wrongful Discharge – Bowman

September 1, 2010 Leave a comment

A Warren County fraud investigator for a local services department can sue her employer for wrongful discharge under a Bowman exception to the employment-at-will doctrine, based on allegations that her employer prevented her investigation of fraud cases and her cooperation ...

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Tort – Real Estate – Trespass – Boundary Dispute

August 20, 2010 Leave a comment

Although defendant did not know he had trespassed on his neighbor’s land when he removed a fence and changed the location of a stream, those actions nevertheless showed a willful and wanton or reckless disregard for the rights of others, ...

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