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Wrongful Termination
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California Employment Law Update
Jury Awards Record $168 Million to Employee in Workplace Harassment Suit
A federal court jury on Wednesday awarded a record $168 million to a physician’s assistant who complained of multiple instances of sexual harassment by her supervisors in the cardiovascular surgery…
California Employment Law
$168 Million Verdict In Single Plaintiff Termination Case
Jury asks for calculator before socking hospital with $168 million verdict.
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Even Wrongful Discharge Claims Have Limits, Says Appellate Court
[caption id="attachment_3514" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Nurse's Claim Fails"][/caption] The Connecticut Appellate court, in a decision that will be officially released next week, affirmed a dismissal an employee's wrongful discharge claim in violation of…
Legal Profession Blog
Bar Arbitration Does Not Cover Wrongful Discharge Claim Of Former In-House Counsel
The Alaska Supreme Court has held that an employer may not invoke the arbitration process of the State Bar in litigation filed by former in-house corporate counsel for wrongful termination.The…
World of Employment
Guidance on Terminations in Alaska
By Meghan Kelly
Two recent opinions from the Alaska Supreme Court offer helpful guidance to employers regarding termination processes. In Barickman v. State, an employer suspected an employee of theft. When…
California Employment Law Update
California Court of Appeal holds that employer may lawfully terminate employee for filing an allegedly false sexual harassment complaint against his supervisor
Joaquin v. City of Los Angeles (California Ct. App. 01/23/2012) A Los Angeles Police Department officer filed a sexual harassment claim with the department against his supervisor, and after investigating…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Fired for Working Through Lunch
Good Morning American carried a story a couple of days ago about an Illinois appellate court's reversal of the denial of unemployment compensation (i.e., she got her unemployment) to a…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Wrongful Termination Plaintiffs Permitted to Testify as Their Own Experts
By Aaron Morris
How would you like to be the employer in this case? Two police officers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) refused to arrest a patient, saying there was…
California Employment Law Update
Ministerial Exception Barred School Employee’s Wrongful Termination Claims Against Church
By Tony Oncidi
Henry v. Red Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, 201 Cal. App. 4th 1041 (2011) Sara Henry taught preschool children at the Red Hill Evangelical Church of Tustin; she was also the…
Legal Profession Blog
Sharp Practices
An attorney who agreed to undertake a wrongful termination case against the Commerce Bank was disbarred by the Kansas Supreme Court. The attorney had first met the client in Sharp's…