McManus v. MCI Communications Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that at-will employee could not base her tortious interference claim on “a long-term employment relationship and an expectancy of continuing employment relations with [the defendant]”
• refusing to create a public policy exception for claims of discrimination under the DCHRA because the DCHRA already protects the same public policy
• rejecting the argument \that a public policy exception to the at-will doctrine applies to an alleged statutory violation\ in a case involving the D.C. Human Rights Act
• rejecting the argument “that a public policy exception to the at-will doctrine applies to an alleged statutory violation” in a case involving the D.C. Human Rights Act
• “It is clear that, as an at-will employee, appellant did not have a contractual employment relationship she could use as the basis for a suit for tortious interference with a contractual relationship.”
• “It is clear that, as an at-will employee, appellant did not have a contractual employment relationship she could use as the basis for a suit for tortious interference with a contractual relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).