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Wrongful Termination
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Litigators at Work
Former Big League Pitcher Awarded More than $1.5 Million for Wrongful Termination
By Martin W. Aron, Abraham N. Saiger
A New Jersey jury in the Superior Court of New Jersey for Camden County has awarded former Major League Baseball pitcher Mitchell Williams $1,565,333 in a wrongful termination action he…
Global Workplace Insider
Dismissed employee failed to mitigate by choosing retraining over applying for comparable re-employment
In Benjamin v. Cascades Canada ULC, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reviewed the law surrounding an employee’s duty to mitigate their common law reasonable notice damages arising from wrongful…
Blaneys Appeals
ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 23 – 26, 2017)
Good afternoon, Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In an important employment law decision in Brake v PJ-M2R Restaurant Inc.,…
Understanding the ADA
Wrongful Discharge and the In-house Attorney or HR Director
Before moving to Atlanta (as a result of my wife getting a job here), and devoting myself full-time to my practice of understanding the ADA, I taught people how to…
California Employment Law Update
Employee Who Suffered From “Altered Mental State” Need Not Be Allowed To Rescind Her Resignation
By Tony Oncidi
Featherstone v. Southern Cal. Permanente Med. Grp., 2017 WL 1399709 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017) Ruth Featherstone alleged that her former employer (SCPMG) discriminated against her based on a "temporary disability"…
Blaneys Appeals
ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (APRIL 18-21, 2017)
Good afternoon, Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In Lawrence v International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 773, in…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Court Dismisses McGowan v. Medpace, Inc. As Improvidently Accepted.
On April 12, 2017, by a vote of 4-3, the court dismissed as improvidently accepted McGowan v. Medpace, Inc., 2017-Ohio-1340. Chief Justice O’Connor and Justices O’Donnell, Kennedy, and French formed…
Civil Service Disqualification Appeals Attorney Blog
Terminated school employee Article 78 Dismissed
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California Employment Law Update
Employer May Have Discriminated Against Female Supervisor Based On Gender
By Tony Oncidi
Mayes v. WinCo Holdings, Inc., 846 F.3d 1274 (9th Cir. 2017) Katie Mayes worked at WinCo for 12 years in Idaho Falls, Idaho. During her last years at WinCo, she…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s On Their Minds: Satisfying the Clarity Element of a Wrongful Termination Claim. McGowan v. Medpace.
Update: on April 12, 2017, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted. “I don’t understand how this is anything other than a termination for supporting public policy in Ohio.”…