Harkness v. City of Burley

How courts have described this case

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

• “An employee’s handbook can constitute an element of the contract,” which in Harkness did limit the reasons for which Harkness could be discharged.
• city council resolution making plaintiff permanent employee probative of existence of a contract; claim dismissed on other grounds
• generally speaking, “the determination of the existence of a sufficient meeting of the minds to form a contract [modifying the at-will employment relationship] is a question of fact to be determined by the trier of facts”
• “employee must have more than a mere hope of continued employment”
• defining an employee's property interest in his employment contract
• defining an employee’s property interest in his employment contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).