Murphy v. City of Topeka

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing tort action for termination of an at-will employee in retaliation for filing a workers’ compensation claim
• recognizing a retaliatory discharge claim for termination of employment for exercising rights under the Kansas Workers Compensation Act
• recognizing an employee’s cause of action for termination in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim
• finding that individual government officials were not immune where they were sued for retaliation, which would have been “in abuse of their authority” and therefore outside the bounds of immunity
• employee discharged for filing worker's compensation claim has actionable tort claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).