Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit March 14, 1995, No. 94-2054 (Nichols v. Metropolitan Center for Independent Living, Inc.)

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Mary Jo Nichols commenced this action in state court, alleging that the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living (“MCIL”) and John Walsh, MCIL’s executive director, violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Minnesota Constitution, and two Minnesota “whistle-blower” statutes in terminating Nichols’s employ with MCIL.