Opinion ID: 2207114
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Heading: Issues Sought to be Added by Amendment.

Text: After the case was remanded to the district court following the prior appeal, plaintiff requested permission to amend his petition to add a count alleging that the circumstances of his discharge were contrary to public policy and, under this court's decision in Springer v. Weeks & Leo Co., 429 N.W.2d 558 (Iowa 1988), should be actionable in tort. The district court denied this request without elaboration as to the grounds for that ruling. Plaintiff now asserts that this was an abuse of discretion. We find no abuse of discretion or legal error in the court's ruling on the request to amend. That request came more than five years after the original petition was filed. Moreover, we believe it was implicit in our decision in Annear I that the case was remanded solely for purposes of trying the civil rights claim. [4]