Case: Individual Employment Rights/Whistleblowing (Minn.)

A district court properly granted summary judgment for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on the Minnesota Whistleblower Act retaliation claims of an involuntarily terminated regional director, because the director didn’t create a genuine issue of material fact for trial over whether her alleged protected activity of reporting suspected child abuse to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and local law enforcement was a motivating factor in the DNR’s decision to terminate her, the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed. The director didn’t introduce evidence that the DNR’s asserted non-retaliatory reason for her termination—the way she conducted herself by repeatedly insisting that a ...