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0768 Public employees terminated for exposing improprieties in the public agency that employed them can successfully state a cause of action for wrongful termination in violation of a public policy embodied in the state's "whistleblower" statute and for violation of the federal Civil Rights Act; supervisors who effected the termination are not protected from liability by statutory immunity applicable to discretionary acts.CitationSOUTHERN v SUPERIOR COURT (Whistleblower Retaliation) 30 CA4 713 [See: GovC 820.2, 12653; Shoemaker v Myers 2 CA4 1407; 42 USC 1983; Waters v Churchill 128 LEd2 686; Rankin v McPherson 483 US 378; Connick v Myers 461 US 138; Pickering v Bd of Ed 391 US 563]
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