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GINGLES v. CENT. STATE GRIFFIN MEM. HOSP.

No. 64341.

749 P.2d 105 (1988)

Edwinna Gayle Dover GINGLES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel. CENTRAL STATE GRIFFIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL; Shirley Tash, Personnel Director, in her official and individual capacities; The State Department of Mental Health; Office of Personnel Management, State of Oklahoma, James Thomas, in his individual and official capacities as administrator, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

January 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen L. Olson, D. Craig Johnston, Pierce Couch Hendrickson Johnston & Baysinger, for appellant.

Michael C. Turpen, Atty. Gen., Neal Leader, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for appellees.

SUMMERS, Justice.

The dispositive issue here is whether the Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital and certain state employees were shielded by sovereign immunity in this pre-Vanderpool suit for retaliatory discharge. Finding that they were, we affirm the summary judgment pronounced by the District Court in favor of the defendants.

Plaintiff received a disabling back injury while moving a patient in the course of her employment on April 22, 1983. She filed...

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