Russ v. Pension Consultants Co.

How courts have described this case

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• public policy favoring obedience to federal law extended to employee who refused to falsify federal tax records
• plaintiff who alleged employer discharged him for refusing to violate provisions of Internal Revenue Code stated cause of action
• allowed retaliatory discharge action where employee refused employer’s request that he engage in illegal activity
• “The [Illinois] supreme court has held that public policy may be found in federal law.... [A]n Illinois citizen’s obedience to the law, including federal law, is a clearly mandated public policy of this state....”
• a refusal to file false tax returns

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).