Pipkin v. Pennsylvania State Police

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining at-will employment to mean that employees “may be terminated at any time, for any reason or for no reason”
• no cause of action may be maintained for termination of the at-will relationship except where “clear mandates of public policy” are threatened
• no cause of action may be maintained for termination of the at-will relationship except where \clear mandates of public policy\ are threatened
• State Troopers on probationary status do not have a property right in continued employment
• “A governmental employee only has a personal or property right in his employment where he can establish a legitimate expectation of continued employment through either a contract or a statute.”
• “The creation of a property interest turns on the substantive protection afforded to the employee pursuant to a state statute or contract and cannot be created by any procedural protection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).