Grahek v. Voluntary Hospital Cooperative Ass'n of Iowa

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• refusing to recognize a claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the employment situation and holding that, where the only act of bad faith alleged was age discrimination, the ICRA “preempted” the bad faith claim
• “termination of an employment at-will is generally not actionable in the absence of discrimination or a public policy violation.”
• genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether or not a parent company was a third party or party to an employment contract such that the parent company could tortiously interfere with the contract
• “Obviously only the employer ... can discharge an employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).