Petruny v. State

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• wrongful discharge tort claims fail where teacher, a tenured employee of the state, is not an employee at will
• wrongful discharge tort claims fail where teacher, a tenured employee of the state, is not an employee at will
• “apparent authority is to be determined, not by the agent’s own acts, but by the acts of the agent’s principal”
• because plaintiff is not an employee at-will, she \is not entitled to invoke the common law doctrine of wrongful discharge as a separate cause of action in tort.\
• because plaintiff is not an employee at-will, she “is not entitled to invoke the common law doctrine of wrongful discharge as a separate cause of action in tort.”
• “[T]he right to recover in tort for wrongful discharge extends only to employees at will.” (quoting D’Ulisse–Cupo v. Bd. of Dirs., 520 A.2d 217, 220 n.1 (Conn. 1987))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).