Fingerhut v. Children's National Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff, director of security for a hospital, had sufficiently pled requisite public policy and a close fit where he asserted that a hospital fired him for reporting to law enforcement that a hospital administrator bribed a public official
• discussing the history of the intentional tort for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy
• reversing dismissal of the plaintiff’s wrongful discharge claim, where the plaintiff alleged that he was fired for refusing to violate District of Columbia statutes
• exception held applicable to a police officer who was terminated because he recorded and reported a bribe of a government official

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).