Shell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[o]ur retaliatory discharge cases are generally based on a public policy articulated by the legislature”
• “We have exercised the power to declare an employer’s conduct as contrary to public policy with restraint ... and have deferred to the West Virginia legislature because it ‘has the primary responsibility for translating public policy into law.’ ” (citations omitted)
• collecting cases finding substantial public policies based on legislative enactments
• “We have exercised the power to declare an employer’s conduct as contrary to public policy with restraint . . . and have deferred to the West Virginia legislature because it ‘has the primary responsibility for translating public policy into law.’” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).