Love v. Polk County Fire District

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that ORS 659A.203(1), which prohibits disciplinary action against certain public employee whistleblowers, is a statutory source of the important public duty to report government wrongdoing
• observing that the public employee whistleblowing statute, ORS 659A.203(b), protects only public employees whose disclosures are based on reasonable belief of misconduct
• threatening to report abuse of patients held actionable where discharge “stems from an effort by an employer to keep an employee from making a complaint to the proper authorities”
• noting the “public duty” supporting a wrongful discharge claim “may be found through cases, statutes, rules, or constitutional provisions that either (1) specifically encourage or require a particular action or (2
• complaints based on “holistic concerns” that were not grounded in applicable statutes or rules cannot be deemed to have furthered some important public duty
• “[T]he ‘important public duty’ doctrine is innately intertwined with the legislative expression of policy choices in statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).