Buechele v. St. Mary's Hospital Decatur

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• holding that respondeat superior liability may attach if an employee criticizes a co-employee in bad faith in a report filed with a state agency
• holding that the right to file a lawsuit in which an individual injury is claimed is a purely personal right not involving any clearly mandated public policy
• holding that respondeat superior liability may attach if an employee criticizes a co-employee in bad faith in a report filed with a state agency
• holding that the right to file a lawsuit in which an individual injury is claimed is a purely personal right not involving any clearly mandated public policy
• finding no public policy exception under Illinois law where at-wfll employee was terminated for suing his employer for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress
• refusing to extend tort of retaliatory discharge claim to employee allegedly fired for fifing libel and slander suit against her employer, because the action involved only individual rights and not any clearly mandated public policy

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