Continental Air Lines, Inc. v. Keenan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an at-will employee would have to demonstrate that his willingness to work \provided the requisite consideration\
• explaining that an at-will employee is one who is hired for an indefinite period of time and whose employment can be terminated by either party without cause and without notice
• stating that the “presumption of ‘at will’ employment” may be rebutted
• stating that the \presumption of `at will' employment\ may be rebutted
• remanding to resolve employee’s breach of contract claim based on standards set forth in opinion
• employee may be able to enforce termination procedure in an employee manual either on a bilateral contract or promissory estoppel theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).