Roberts v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

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• Tort of retaliatory discharge exists only where employee was fired for exercising statutory right or refusing to engage in criminal activity.
• employee may not rely on a subjective understanding or expectation that he would be fired only for just cause
• “[A] blanket exclusion of evidence of events that occurred before or after the discrimination is arbitrary.”
• court affirms trial court’s decision to exclude testimony by expert on plaintiffs lost income because it is too speculative and based on an assumption that plaintiff had a just cause employment contract rather that an at-will contract

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