Hartle v. Packard Elec.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a disclaimer in an employer’s handbook preserves the employer’s right to terminate an employee at-will
• holding that disclaimer in handbook preserved employer's right to terminate employee at will
• holding that employee handbook containing warning that policies and procedures contained therein did not constitute legal contract, did not alter the at-will status of employment relationship and did not limit employer's discretion to discharge except for just cause
• upholding summary judgment for employer because express disclaimer in handbook 3 negated contract claim
• handbook specifically stating that an employee can be terminated \at will\ preserves the employment at will status

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• City of Midland v. O'BRYANT
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-06-15· cited 179×
• Lee v. Golden Triangle Planning & Development District
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-01-18· cited 62×
• Cothern v. Vickers, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-25· cited 54×
• Brown v. Inter-City Federal Bank
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-01-26· cited 35×
• Morrison v. MSET
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-05-08· cited 34×
• Raiola v. Chevron USA, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-02-24· cited 29×
• McDaniel v. Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
  S.D. Mississippi· 1994-11-29· cited 18×
• McCrory v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-05-18· cited 14×
• Lippincott v. Miss. Bureau of Narcotics
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-04-08· cited 14×
• Cooper v. Drexel Chemical Co.
  N.D. Mississippi· 1996-04-22· cited 12×
• Slatery v. NE MISS. CONTRACT PROCUREMENT
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-09-16· cited 12×
• Byrd v. Imperial Palace of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-06· cited 12×
• Jones v. City of Hattiesburg
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-01-10· cited 10×
• Dandridge v. Chromcraft Corp.
  N.D. Mississippi· 1996-01-24· cited 7×
• Young v. North Mississippi Medical Center
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 6×
• Eaves v. K-Mart Corp.
  S.D. Mississippi· 2001-06-07· cited 3×
• Smith v. Gencorp, Inc.
  N.D. Mississippi· 1997-07-14· cited 2×
• Valle v. Johnson Controls World Services, Inc.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1996-07-18· cited 1×
• McCool v. COAHOMA OPPORTUNITIES, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-10-05· cited 1×
• Sara M. Slatery v. Northeast Mississippi Contract Procurement, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-04

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reid v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1986-04-28· cited 395×
• John Staren and David Henner v. American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, a Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1976-02-03· cited 156×
• Pierce v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1899-02-20· cited 140×
• Barry L. Conrad v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. And Air Line Pilots Association, International
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-04-12· cited 116×
• Perry v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 101×
• Rape v. Mobile & O. R. R.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1924-06-16· cited 52×
• Shirl E. Hartle v. Packard Electric, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-08-10· cited 35×
• Samples v. Hall of Mississippi, Inc.
  N.D. Mississippi· 1987-07-21· cited 10×
• Windfield v. Groen Division, Dover Corp.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1990-04-27· cited 4×
• Atlanta Stove Works v. Hamilton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1903-10-15· cited 3×