Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that wrongdoing associated with intentional tort did not in itself satisfy heightened standard required for exemplary damages
• holding that circumstantial evidence that the stated reason for an adverse employment action was false can be evidence of causation in a whistleblower cause of action
• holding that Harris County statutory county court had jurisdiction over certain Labor Code violations when statute provided that such suits “may” be brought in district court
• holding that supervisor’s questioning whether an employee’s injury might have resulted from non-compensable causes was not “probative” to demonstrate a negative attitude
• concluding that evidence which tended to establish violation of anti-retaliation statute, including evidence of employer’s doubts of employee’s injury, was not type of egregious violation for which punitive damages were appropriate
• holding that circumstantial evidence that the stated reason for an adverse employment action was false can be evidence of causation in a whistleblower cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).