Epps v. Clarendon County

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• finding summary judgment was appropriate on the plaintiff's wrongful discharge in violation of public policy claim where a remedy existed under § 1983
• finding summary judgment was appropriate on the plaintiff’s wrongful discharge in violation of public policy claim where a remedy existed under § 1983
• finding WTPP claim not allowed where employee had potential remedy under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• affirming dismissal of wrongful discharge claim where public employee had existing remedy pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 4 for violation of his First Amendment rights
• declining to extend the public policy exception “where . . . the employee has an existing remedy for a discharge which allegedly violates rights other than the right to employment itself”
• “We have reviewed the handbook and find no provision concerning procedures for termination or any provision which might otherwise be construed as altering an employee’s at-will status”

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