Mello v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• termination of employee who reported false damage claims could not be wrongful because claims were an internal matter
• rule of liability can be found where statute expresses Legislature’s policy concerning employees’ rights
• public policy liability may exist “unless no common law rule is needed because the legislature has also prescribed a statutory remedy,” citing as one example its worker’s compensation retaliation provision
• employee failed to prove that employer would not have discharged him but for conduct protected by public policy
• employee failed to prove that employer would not have discharged him but for conduct protected by public policy
• “[N]o common law rule is needed [where] the Legislature has also prescribed a statutory remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).