Harrison v. Granite Bay Care, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that Maine’s whistleblower protection statute was “a remedial scheme to vindicate” against discharge in retaliation for reporting illegal acts
• noting that the principal place of business is determined by the “nerve center test” established by Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77, 80-81 (2010)
• noting that a corporation’s principal place of business is located where owners, though possibly “hands off in day-to-day decisions,” “exercise[d] ‘ultimate’ control over” the corporation by setting “policy and goals”
• defining “nerve center” for diversity jurisdiction as “the place where the buck stops”
• “[A] particular employee’s job duties may be relevant in discerning his or her actual motivation in reporting information, [although] those duties are not dispositive of the question.”
• public employee’s conduct is protected even if disclosure is within her job duties so long as she is motivated by intent to bring wrongdoing to light

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).