Patterson v. State, Department of Health & Welfare

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, the only favorable case that Patterson cited was decided a month and a half after her letter of resignation and could not have been relied upon in making her determination as to the reasonableness of her belief that she was engaging in protected activity
• plaintiff’s claim for constructive discharge arose “when she provided unequivocal notice of her intent to resign”
• “[T]he accrual of the constructive discharge claim is based on when the work environment became unbearable for the employee, not when the employer believed she was no longer employed there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).