McPhail v. Milwaukie Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• considering fact that the employer was “upset about paying workers’ compensation benefits and premiums” in reversing summary judgment in favor of the employer on the plaintiffs workers’ compensation discrimination claim
• consideration exists when “the promissee would have forebome some legal right that the promissee would otherwise be entitled to exercise”
• \The court's role on summary judgment is not to decide whether its credulity has been strained but to determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact.\
• “The court’s role on summary judgment is not to decide whether its credulity has been strained but to determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact.”
• “ ‘detriment’ means that the promisee has forborne some legal right that the prom- isee would otherwise have been entitled to exercise”
• “ ‘detriment’ means that the promisee has forborne some legal right that the prom- isee would otherwise have been entitled to exercise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).