Martin v. Capital Cities Media, Inc.

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 handbook listing actions that would call for disciplinary action did not restrict the employer’s right to terminate the employee without cause
• holding that an employee handbook does not alter the presumption of at-will employment unless handbook contains specific language to that effect
• noting that employer, in spite of important public policy, may discharge employee if employer has legitimate reason for doing so
• warning that allowing a cause of action for wrongful discharge based on freedom of expression “would be tantamount to transferring management decisions to the judicial forum”
• noting that in such contexts it is the intention of the parties that must be the ultimate guide
• finding no public policy violation where employee discharge was result of employee placing an advertisement in a competing newspaper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).