A former Henry County elementary schoolteacher will get to revive an expired whistleblower complaint, after the Supreme Court of Georgia determined it’d been timely filed within a year of the employee receiving notice of her termination as an alleged action of retaliation.

Now potential damages that had been dismissed as time-barred might be eligible for review as the case makes it way back to Henry County Superior Court.

Former Superior Court Judge Trea Pipkin of the Flint Judicial Circuit in Henry County, Georgia. (Courtesy photo)