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· 9/28/2015

Mickel G. Hoback v. City of Chattanooga

Citations

  • 492 S.W.3d 248
  • 40 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1186
  • 2015 WL 5692865
  • 2015 Tenn. App. LEXIS 785

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the court was authorized to take judicial notice of records from the appellant’s separate lawsuit in federal district court
  • explaining that an employee wrongfully deprived of a property right in employment “‘can be made whole through an award of back pay and either reinstatement or, in certain circumstances, front pay’”
  • finding the doctrine of election of remedies to apply where the plaintiff chose to pursue the remedy of front pay, rather than reinstatement, in a wrongful termination case
  • “Tennessee courts have recognized that an employee who is found to be wrongfully discharged ‘can be made whole through an award of back pay and either reinstatement or, in certain circumstances, front pay’”

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Judges: Frierson, Susano, Swiney

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