Carter v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to find a public policy exception where the plaintiff alleged that she was terminated for making protected disclosures
• affirming grant of summary judgment on wrongful discharge claim premised on alleged whistleblowing protected by DCWPA
• rejecting public-policy exception where District’s Whistle- blower Protection Act already provides an employee with cause of action
• “[O]ur cases require us to defer to the legislature’s prerogatives and to decline to recognize a novel, competing cause of action for wrongful discharge at common law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).