Jacobs v. Universal Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[o]nly an employer can be hable for tortious discharge, and fellow employees cannot be held accountable for tortious discharge on a conspiracy theory.”
• in pari delicto aspect of unclean-hands doctrine denies affirmative relief to “one tainted with inequitableness or bad faith relative to the matter in which he seeks relief, however improper may have been the behavior of the defendant” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).