Jones v. Fluor Daniel Services Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiffs were “merely bothered” by employer’s conduct and did not intend to report illegal activity
• stating that the reporting of illegal acts exception has been applied only when the illegal act “had something to do with the business itself”
• reversing summary judgment on intentional infliction of emotional distress claim where African-American employees were called monkeys
• employees terminated for reporting a manager’s use of racial slurs did not satisfy the McArn exception, because use of racial slurs had “nothing to do with the business” of the company
• characterizing the McArn exception as “very narrow”
• characterizing the McAm exception as “very narrow”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).