Christensen v. Kingston School Committee

How courts have described this case

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• noting claims for breach of contract and claims for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing ought not become “automatic bedfellows”
• noting “[bad faith] generally involve[s] deceit or unfair subterfuge and usually [is] compounded by deceptive or unfair behavior that prevented-or at a minimum diverted-the injured parties from seeking immediate redress”
• granting motion to dismiss substantive due process claim where asserted right “d[id] not possess a significant resemblance to those interests previously viewed as fundamental by the Constitution” (quoting Coyne v. City of Somerville, 770 F. Supp. 740, 747 (D. Mass. 1991)
• no breach of implied covenant where termination did not deprive plaintiff of compensation based on past services
• “[Bad faith] generally involve[s] deceit or ‘unfair subterfuge’ and usually [is] ‘compounded by deceptive or unfair behavior that prevented-or at a minimum diverted-the injured parties from seeking immediate redress.’ ” (citations omitted)
• “In order to demonstrate a claim for the breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the plaintiff must show that there existed an enforceable contract between the two parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).