MacKie v. Vaughan Chapter-Paralyzed Veterans of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that one-type of recognized theory of retaliatory discharge is the citizen crime-fighter theory where an employee is terminated for whistle-blowing
• reversing circuit court’s dismissal of retaliatory discharge action where employees of veterans’ group chapter complained to chapter and group’s police department that another employee was misusing chapter’s mailing list
• required determination was whether the plaintiff alleged that the employer engaged in conduct the plaintiff believed in good faith was prohibited by the law
• “A plaintiff need only have a good-faith belief that the defendant was violating the law; the plaintiff need not conclusively show that the law was broken or the regulations in question were violated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).