Lawson v. South Carolina Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a plaintiff cannot bring a South Carolina common law claim for “wrongful discharge” where the alleged discharge is in violation of a substantive right created by statute
• finding that where the appellant was not asked to violate the law nor was his termination itself a violation of criminal law, a claim for wrongful termination could not be maintained
• WTPP claim not allowed when employee had remedy under state Whistleblower Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).