King v. Driscoll

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• holding that the pursuit of additional financial gain did not constitute an improper motive
• holding that “motives of personal and financial gain” were insufficient to show actual malice
• emphasizing that remoteness between employee’s complaints of corporate conduct and the impact on public safety foreclosed relief under the public policy exception
• explaining that “personal dislike will not warrant an inference of the requisite ill will”
• explaining that “improper motive or means” prong requires that defendant possess “actual malice, a spiteful malignant purpose, unrelated to the legitimate corporate interest”
• noting that “the internal administration, policy, functioning and other matters of an organization cannot be the basis for a public policy exception”

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