Opinion ID: 2999543
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Heading: A person who, after having discharged any em-

Text: ployee from his service, prevents the discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person commits a Class C infraction and is liable in penal damages to the discharged employee to be recovered by civil action; but this subsection does not prohibit a person from informing, in writing, any other person to whom the discharged employee has applied for employment a truthful statement of the reasons for the discharge. (b) An employer that discloses information about a current or former employee is immune from civil liability for the disclosure and the consequences proximately caused by the disclosure, unless it is proven by a preponderance of the evidence that the information disclosed was known to be false at the time the disclosure was made. Ind. Code 22-5-3-1(a)(b). The district court granted the City summary judgment on this supplemental state law claim, concluding that Tomanovich failed to present any admissible evidence that the City had provided INDOT with false information. On appeal, Tomanovich does not claim that the City provided INDOT with false information; instead he merely incorporates the arguments he made for reversal of his Title VII retaliation claim. However, without evidence that the City provided INDOT with false information, the City was entitled to summary judgment on Tomanovich’s blacklisting claim. No. 05-1653 17