WEST v. CITY OF ALBANY

S16Q1881.

797 S.E.2d 809 (2017)

WEST v. CITY OF ALBANY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: March 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LaTonya Nix Wiley , The Wiley Law Firm, 1100 Peachtree Street N.E. Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant.

William Drummond Deveney , Richard Read Gignilliat , Sydney Hu , Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP, 800 International Tower, 229 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.

Lisa Catherine Lambert , Law Office of Lisa C. Lambert, 245 N. Highland Avenue, Suite 230-139, Atlanta, Georgia 30307, Steven Eric Wolfe , The Buckley Law Firm, LLC, Promenade, Suite 900, 1230 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-7533, Allan Leroy Parks, Jr. , Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C., 75 Fourteenth Street, 26th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Cheryl Barnes Legare , Legare, Attwood & Wolfe, LLC, 400 Colony Square, Suite 1000, 1201 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30361, for Amicus Appellant.

Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel , Susan Janan Moore , Georgia Municipal Association, Inc., 201 Pryor Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Scott W. Kelly , Fulcher Hagler LLP, P.O. Box 1477, Augusta, Georgia 30903-1477, John Edward Price , Fulcher Hagler LLP, One Tenth Street, Suite 700, Augusta, Georgia 30901, for Amicus Appellee.


Serless West ("West"), a former employee of the City of Albany ("City"), filed a complaint in federal court against the City and two individuals setting forth, among other things, a claim under the Georgia Whistleblower Act ("GWA"), OCGA § 45-1-4. With respect to West's claims under the GWA, she seeks economic and non-economic...

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