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· 6/15/2001

Schuster v. Derocili

Citations

  • 775 A.2d 1029
  • 17 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1159
  • 2001 Del. LEXIS 265
  • 85 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1786
  • 2001 WL 682105

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that in E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, the Delaware Supreme Court “catalogued actionable claims that could be maintained for breaches of an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing into four categories,” including “violations of public policy”
  • referring to the employee’s claim for sexual harassment as “based upon a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing exception to the at-will employment doctrine because her employer terminated her contrary to public policy”
  • plaintiff whose sexual harassment claim under the Act was dismissed by the department could sue under same theory as a breach of the contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing
  • “In DuPont v. Pressman, we held that an employee was entitled to recover damages for wrongful termination based on fictitious grounds, as an application of the good faith and fair dealing exception to the employment-at-will doctrine.”
  • termination for failure to submit to sexual harassment

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Judges: Veasey, Walsh, Holland, Berger, Steele

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