Drobny v. Boeing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• no implied contract requiring progressive discipline existed where employer retained discretion on a case-by-case basis to determine whether conduct was serious enough to merit dismissal without recourse to progressive discipline
• “Whether or not an employer has made a promise specific enough to create an obligation and justify an employee’s reliance thereon is a question of fact. Only if reasonable minds could not differ in resolving this issue should a trial court decide it as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).