Kestenbaum v. Pennzoil Co.

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 decision to terminate an employee where an implied contract is found must be supported by reasonable grounds for the employer to believe that sufficient cause existed to justify the employee’s termination
• stating that implied employment contracts can be created through the representations of employers including the employers' handbooks or manuals
• indicating that “any objections to counsel’s argument should be timely made, unless they are of such [a] serious nature that a cautionary instruction would not cure the error”
• holding that in cases in which employment contract requires employer to give notice of specifics of charge and chance to defend before termination, the reasons actually given are the only ones on which the employer may rely for good cause at trial
• stating that an at-will employment contract did not fall within the statute of frauds because it could be performed in under one year
• stating that implied employment contracts can be created through the representations of employers including the employers’ handbooks or manuals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).