Sanford v. Meadow Gold Dairies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing wrongful-discharge claim of individual employed under a CBA as “rest[ing] on our holdings that public policy is violated when an employee, even an employee at-will, is discharged as a result of seeking workers’ compensation benefits”
• “An essential element of [a retaliatory discharge] claim is a showing concerning the. employer’s specific motivation in firing [the employee].”
• the employee was not fired until months after he filed for workers’ compensation benefits — and indeed, not until after’ the company suspected him of malingering while receiving such benefits
• “As a general rule decisions concerning relevance and materiality of evidence are discretionary.”
• “An essential element of the claim is a showing concerning the employer’s specific motivation in firing; it must appear that the discharge was prompted by the filing of the workers’ compensation claim.”
• “An essential element of the claim is a showing concerning the employer’s specific motivation in firing; it must appear that the discharge was prompted by the filing of the workers’ compensation claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).