DeRose v. Putnam Management Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• permitting at-will employee to recover damages on a breach of contract theory for discharge in violation of public policy
• terminating at-will employee for failing to give false testimony against coworker violates public policy
• terminating at-will employee for failing to give false testimony against coworker violates public policy
• recognizing claim under Massachusetts common law
• termination wrongful where employee was terminated for refusing to testify falsely at trial, i.e., refusing to do what the law forbids
• at-will employee may assert breach of contract where wrongfully discharged in violation of public policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).