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Wrongful Termination
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Constructlaw®
Delaware District Court Reduces Contractor Recovery for Wrongful Termination
By Constructlaw
Donald M. Durkin Contracting, Inc. v. City of Newark 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 28987 (D. Del. Apr. 9, 2008) The Delaware District Court held that a contractor who is improperly…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Congratulations, Senator . . . You’re Fired!
You win election to the Mississippi state senate and for your victory, you are fired from your job (via Jackson Clarion-Ledger): Freshman state Sen. Eric Powell learned two days after…
California Employment Law Update
Sales Representative’s $480,000 Wrongful Termination Award Is Affirmed
By Tony Oncidi
Casella v. SouthWest Dealer Services, 157 Cal. App. 4th 1127 (2007) Zachary Casella was employed as a sales representative for SouthWest Dealer Services, which sells its aftermarket auto products to…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Court: Motion Doomed to Fail Like Attack on Pearl Harbor
AT&T’s attack on the December 7, 2007 protective order is not unlike Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sixty six years ago, both were unwarranted and doomed to fail. So…
Labor Law Prof Blog
And I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time . . .
We're coming a little late to this story, but then again the plaintiff had to wait thirteen years for justice (via Boston.com):Five Boston health workers will finally receive monetary awardsstemming…
California Employment Law Update
Wrongful Termination And Retaliation Claims Can Proceed Against Screen Actors Guild
By Tony Oncidi
Metoyer v. Screen Actors Guild, 504 F.3d 919 (9th Cir. 2007) SAG terminated the employment of Dr. Patricia Heisser Metoyer (SAG’s national executive director of affirmative action) after PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded she…
Labor Law Prof Blog
The Brad Pitt of Psychiatry
Columbia University is facing a wrongful termination action from a child psychiatrist who alleges that he was forced out of his job. As the New York Times reports:In the suit,…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Fired Dow Officer Sues Bank That Implicated Him
You will recall that Dow Chemical fired two officers when JPMorganChase told the company that they had participated in secret talks to buy the company. The firing resulted in litigation…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Wrongful Discharge Claim For Reporting Bar Manager Rejected by Jury
A recent article by the Connecticut Law Tribune reported on the trial of two bar workers who claimed that they were terminated in retaliation for reporting a supervisor's alleged sexual…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
The triggering event for a wrongful dismissal claim is not necessarily the dismissal of the employee.
In a claim for wrongful dismissal, the triggering event for insurance coverage is when the insured’s employee is both terminated and provided inadequate notice for compensation in lieu of notice.…