Goldhor v. Hampshire College

How courts have described this case

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

• an opinion which makes the point that an announcement of termination of employment does not in and of itself have defamatory connotations
• “[A]n employee with a contract for a term certain may only be terminated prior to the expiration of that term for justifiable cause.”
• “Discharge for just cause is to be contrasted with discharge on unreasonable grounds or arbitrarily, capriciously, or in bad faith.”
• “just cause” required to terminate an employee working under an employment contract for a term certain
• “As the existence of just cause is an affirmative defense, ‘commonly a question of fact, it rarely can be ruled as a matter of law that it has been sustained.’ ”
• upholding exclusion of expert testimony that would not assist jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).