Smith v. Cladianos

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an at-will 2 employment can be terminated at any time if the employment is not for a definite term and there 3 are no contractual restrictions on the right to discharge
• “We severely restricted the tort remedy . . . to 11 those rare and exceptional instances where the employer’s conduct goes well beyond the 12 bounds of ordinary breach of contract liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).