Donn Milton, Dr. v. Iit Research Institute

How courts have described this case

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• holding that cause of action for wrongful discharge not available where plaintiff alleges she was terminated for reporting a crime
• noting that “[t]he word ‘tort’ has a settled meaning in Virginia” and refers broadly to “any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act”
• noting that \[t]his search for a specific legal duty is no mere formality. Rather it limits judicial forays into the wilderness of discerning `public policy' without clear direction from a legislative or regulatory search.\
• noting that “[tjhis search for a specific legal duty is no mere formality. Rather it limits judicial forays into the wilderness of discerning ‘public policy’ without clear direction from a legislative or regulatory search.”
• finding that an approach based on where the injury is felt would \effectively replace Virginia's traditional rule for tort cases with default application of the law of plaintiff's domicile.\
• recognizing that Virginia applies /ex loci delicti

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).