Kearney v. University of Kentucky
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgments of the trial court and court of appeals that summary judgment was proper in this whistleblower case, holding that Plaintiff's allegations related to a University of Kentucky (UK) internal administrative regulation and did not constitute a disclosure protected by the Kentucky Whistleblower Act (KWA).
Plaintiff, a trauma surgeon and tenured professor of surgery, initiated this action against UK alleging claims under the KWA. The trial court granted summary judgment for UK, concluding that Plaintiff failed to qualify for whistleblower protection under Ky. Rev. Stat. 61.102. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Plaintiff's allegations related to UK's administrative regulation AR 3:14 was not a disclosure protected by the KWA, and Plaintiff's other identified communications did not meet the KWA's requirements.
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