Larrabee v. Penobscot Frozen Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parties may carve out an exception to the terminable-at-will rule “even though no consideration other than services to be performed or promised is expected by the employer, or is performed or promised by the employee”
• noting that “if our Legislature had intended that a private party have a right of action under [the statute], it would have expressed its intent in the statutory language or legislative history or, more likely, expressly enacted one”
• stating that “[d]ismissal of a complaint . .. is appropriate only if it appears beyond doubt that the Plaintiff is entitled to no relief under any set of facts which he might prove in support of his claim”
• had the legislature intended to create a private right of action, “it would have either expressed its intent in the statutory language or legislative history or, more likely, expressly enacted one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).