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PENDLETON — Blue Mountain Community College has pushed back against a the $1 million lawsuit from a former employee who claims the college fired her after she exposed another custodian for sexually harassing and stalking her.

Attorneys Jason Rittereiser and Carla Grabarek, with the firm HKM Employment Attorneys, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jennifer Smutz on May 9 in Umatilla County Circuit Court. BMCC through its lawyer, Rebekah R. Jacobson, with Garrett Hemann Robertson P.C., in Salem, filed its defense June 11, asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit.

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