Smidt v. Porter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee could not justifiably rely on an employer’s promise of long-term employment when the employee was at-will pursuant to her negotiated employment contract
• holding “a trier of fact could choose not to believe [the employer’s] after-the-fact justifications” where the employer failed to produce documentation of poor performance
• recognizing that the timing of adverse action may be “particularly suspicious”
• holding fact that employer terminated pregnant employee the day before employee was scheduled to meet employer to discuss maternity leave was suspicious
• determining that the Iowa Statute of Frauds was not applicable because the employer could have promoted the employee within one year
• finding that proximate cause is necessary element for claim of fraudulent misrepresentation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).