Sickle v. King Kullen Grocery Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “plaintiff cannot assert a statutory claim for wages under the Labor Law if he has no enforceable contractual right to those wages”
• holding that where plaintiffs have no enforceable contractual right to wages, they are barred from bringing a claim under NYLL
• holding that a plaintiff “cannot assert a statutory claim for wages under the Labor Law if he has no enforceable contractual right to those wages”
• holding that an alleged oral modification of a written employment agreement was not enforceable because the employee’s action in remaining on the job did not constitute adequate consideration
• holding that when a written contract provides that it can be amended only in writing, an oral modification of that agreement, such as is alleged here, is unenforceable absent partial performance or estoppel
• holding that plaintiff “cannot assert a statutory claim for wages under the Labor Law if he has no enforceable contractual right to those wages” (quoted in Karmilowicz v. Hartford Fin. Servs. Grp., Inc., 494 Fed.Appx. at 158)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).