Atwood v. Western Construction Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• whether a conversation about an employee’s pension constituted a promise of continued employment was a “factual issue . . . ordinarily . . . determined by a jury”
• “A distinction must be recognized between promises and mere statements of opinion or prediction.”
• attorney’s fees not recoverable for successful defense of age discrimination claim based on Idaho Code § 67- 5909 because “[t]hat claim, though rooted in the employment relationship, sought recovery for infringement of rights created not by contract but by statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).