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).

Cited by

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

• Estate of Grimes v. Warrington
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-02-21· cited 45×
• Jones v. FLUOR DANIEL SERVICES CORP.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-02-18· cited 43×
• Kristan Seibert v. Jackson County, Mississippi, et
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-03-15· cited 39×
• DeCarlo v. Bonus Stores, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-17· cited 19×
• Mississippi Medicaid Pharmaceutical Average Wholesale Price Litigation v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-10-29· cited 19×
• Empire Abrasive Equipment Corp. v. Morgan
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-05-03· cited 12×
• DeCarlo v. Bonus Stores, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-12-21· cited 10×
• Brown v. SOUTHWEST MISS. REGIONAL MED. CTR.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-01-29· cited 9×
• Marshall v. Kansas City Southern Railways Co.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-11-06· cited 4×
• Sellars Ex Rel. Dill v. Walgreen Co.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-01-08· cited 4×
• Southern Health Corporation of Houston, Inc. v. Carol Crausby
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-05-26· cited 4×
• Little v. Consolidated Publishing Co.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2011-05-13· cited 3×
• Dotson v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2008-10-28· cited 1×
• Galle v. Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-08-19· cited 1×
• Helen Grimes v. James Warrington, Jr.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-10-09
• Gene Jones v. Fluor Daniel Services Corporation
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-03-04
• Terry H. Logan, Sr. v. Mississippi Transportation Commission
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-09-10
• Lott v. Corinthian, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-05-12
• Brittany Spiers v. Oak Grove Credit, LLC, Columbia Credit, LLC and Pine Belt Credit, LLC
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2021-11-18
• Dollar General Corporation v. Bradley Dobbs
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2025-03-13

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• White v. Monsanto Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1991-10-11· cited 451×
• Taylor v. Metzger
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1998-02-18· cited 268×
• McArn v. Allied Bruce-Terminix Co., Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-08-19· cited 167×
• Leaf River Forest Products, Inc. v. Ferguson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-19· cited 134×
• Russell v. Orr
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-10-09· cited 131×
• Contreras v. Crown Zellerbach Corp.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-06-30· cited 129×
• Leffler v. Sharp
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-10· cited 98×
• Lee v. Golden Triangle Planning & Development District
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-01-18· cited 62×
• Alexander v. Daniel
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 51×
• Willard v. Paracelsus Health Care Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-12· cited 43×
• Smith v. Malouf
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-09-24· cited 26×
• Anglin v. Gulf Guar. Life Ins. Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-19· cited 18×
• Richmond v. MS. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-29· cited 15×