Nees v. Hocks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, although the plaintiff’s employment was at-will, her employer was precluded from firing her for serving on a jury
• recognizing a public policy claim where employee discharged for performing statutory duty to serve on a jury
• judgment in favor of employee, discharged solely because she went on jury duty contrary to company policy, sustained
• employee discharged for refusing to attempt to evade jury duty granted a cause of action for wrongful discharge under public policy exception
• concept that every intentional infliction of harm is prima facie a tort unless justified was rejected
• employee was fired for serving on jury duty against the wishes of her employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).