Campbell v. Husky Hogs, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing retaliatory-discharge claim when an employee is terminated for filing a wage claim under the Kansas Wage Payment Act
• finding a common-law retaliatory discharge claim when an employer fires a worker who seeks to exercise his Kansas Wage Payment Act rights by filing a wage claim
• reversing district court’s sua sponte holding that remedies available for violating Kansas Wage Payment Act [KWPA] provided adequate alternative remedy for plaintiff s common-law retaliatory discharge claim
• finding a retaliatory-discharge claim “necessary [to carry out public policy] when an employer fires a worker who seeks to exercise [Kansas Wage Payment Act] rights by filing a wage claim” [emphasis added]
• \This court has previously criticized the allocation of a common-law action to an administrative agency;\ issue whether Act's remedies adequate to preclude remedies available under common-law tort of retaliatory discharge
• \The case law makes it obvious that Kansas courts permit the common-law tort of retaliatory discharge as a limited exception to the at-will employment doctrine when it is necessary to protect a strongly held state public policy from being undermined.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cohen v. Battaglia
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-02-08· cited 94×
• Dukowitz v. Hannon Security Services
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-01-02· cited 45×
• Pfeifer v. Federal Express Corp.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-06-07· cited 35×
• Craig v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-10-03· cited 31×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-09-06· cited 28×
• Blair v. Transam Trucking, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 2018-03-28· cited 27×
• Community Care Center of Aberdeen v. Mary Barrentine
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-03-26· cited 18×
• Smith v. Kansas Orthopaedic Center, P.A.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2013-12-27· cited 17×
• Martell v. Driscoll
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-06-07· cited 13×
• Craig v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-07-12· cited 12×
• Deeds v. Waddell & Reed Investment Management Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2012-05-04· cited 10×
• Mashaney v. Board of Indigents' Defense Services
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2013-11-08· cited 10×
• United States ex rel. Coffman v. City of Leavenworth
  D. Kansas· 2018-03-23· cited 9×
• In re Marriage of Bahlmann
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2019-04-05· cited 8×
• Lumry v. State, Kansas Bureau of Investigation
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2013-08-16· cited 6×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2016-12-09· cited 4×
• Berkemeier v. Standard Beverage Corp.
  D. Kansas· 2016-03-18· cited 2×
• Conge v. City of Olathe
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2024-06-21· cited 1×
• Platt v. Kansas State University
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2016-09-16
• Lumry v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2016-12-16