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inlawrev-26850	Warner, Drew	Sovereign Immunity in Indiana: A Proposal to Protect Whistleblowers Against the State Through Legislative Action	2022	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9437	413	57	Thus, this statute generally provides recourse to individuals who have been wronged by their employer for whistleblowing wrongful acts.85 The intersection of Indiana’s whistleblower statute and the State’s sovereign immunity came to fruition when a former state employee tried to sue the Indiana Department of Environmental Management in state court under the statute.8 6 The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the suit by stating that the Court “will not presume the legislature intended the Act to apply to the State,” and that if the legislature had intended for the term “employer” to apply to the State, “it could have expressed that intention any number of ways. While a plain reading of the statute would seem to imply that the term “employer” would apply to all employers, the Court’s interpretation that the statute did not include the State as an “employer” only reinforced how narrowly a legislative waiver of State immunity will be construed.88 B.	cache/inlawrev-26850.pdf	txt/inlawrev-26850.txt