Brown v. Transcon Lines

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing common law action despite the presence of statutory remedy on theory that statutory remedy was inadequate
• recognizing claim for wrongful discharge when employee discharged for exercising statutory right to file workers’ compensation claim
• allowing employees to file civil tort suit notwithstanding statute granting commissioner discretionary power to investigate and act on complaints of retaliation for filing workers’ compensation claims
• discharge for refusal to take polygraph test, where statute forbade employers from requiring same
• where neither statute nor legislative history shows intention to negate preexisting common-law remedy, new remedy held to be cumulative with statutory remedy
• there was a common-law wrongful discharge cause of action where only limited administrative remedies were available for discharge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).