AUSTIN v. STATE

No. 2009-CA-01656-COA.

52 So.3d 1257 (2011)

Marsha K. AUSTIN, Appellant v. The STATE of Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Cheryl Phillips and James Chastain, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

February 1, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Michael Marks , Jackson, Julie Ann Epps , Canton, attorneys for appellant.

Louis G. Baine III , Jan F. Gadow , Jackson, Michelle Tolle High , Office of the Attorney General by Scott Stuart , Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

Before MYERS, P.J., IRVING and MAXWELL, JJ.


MYERS, P.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Marsha Austin filed suit against the State of Mississippi, the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, and two MDMH employees, Cheryl Phillips and James Chastain. We shall refer to the defendants collectively as MDMH. Austin alleged that she had been fired for complaining about understaffing and falsification of medical records at the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, where she had worked as a nurse. Austin alleged wrongful...

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