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IOWA CITY — More than a year after he was fired from his post as executive director to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Guillermo Morales has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in U.S. District Court.

The lawsuit, which seeks monetary damages, names Johnson County, Supervisors Rod Sullivan and Lisa Green-Douglass, and former supervisor Royceann Porter as defendants.

In the lawsuit, Morales claims that his termination was due, in part, to his identity as a Latino man, as well as retaliation for his support of a supervisor’s campaign and a censure vote against the county attorney. The lawsuit also claims that the defendants made defamatory statements about him and conspired against hi

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