Ascher v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing \public policy of encouraging citizens to save others from life threatening situations.\
• holding a “highest priority on protection of human life” to be a “fundamental public policy,” evidenced by a plethora of otherwise unrelated statutes and judicial opinions
• recognizing public-policy exception where employee was terminated for defending the safety of another
• finding “public policy of saving persons from life threatening situations satisfies the clarity element” before it evaluated whether the public policy had been violated
• finding employees must show “they engaged in particular conduct,” which “directly relates to the public policy”
• applying a four-part test to a wrongful discharge claim, the last element analyzing whether the employer has an overriding justification for the dismissal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).