Kerrigan v. Britches of Georgetowne, Inc.

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• holding that the defendant’s acts of manufacturing evidence to establish a false claim of sexual harassment against the plaintiff failed to meet the outrageousness standard
• concluding that because the plaintiff, “as an employee at will, not under any contract,” had no basis for claiming that the defendant breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
• holding that at-will employee could not have a claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing because there was no employment contract to which the duty could be implied
• observing that D.C. law permits employers to “disclaim any implied contracts”
• targeting an employee for sexual harassment, manufacturing false evidence, leaking information to other employees, and unjustifiably demoting the employee does not rise to the required level of outrageous conduct
• targeting an employee for sexual harassment, manufacturing false evidence, leaking information to other employees, and unjustifiably demoting the employee does not rise to the required level of outrageous conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).