Ross v. Times Mirror, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant was not a third party but an employee of the entity with which plaintiff had a contract
• explaining that employer binds itself to particular employment terms where policy is in definitive form and communicated to employees and employer manifests intent to comply with policies
• noting that whether statements in employee handbooks are “binding agreements” depends on whether statements are “definitive in form, communicated to the employees, and demonstrate an objective manifestation of the employer’s intent to bind itself”
• reserving judgment on whether Court would recognize the covenant in the context of nontenure terms of at-will contract
• declining to recognize implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing where employment is at-will and employee claims a right to tenure
• declining to recognize implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing where employment is at-will and employee claims a right to tenure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).