Susquehanna Mutual Fire Ins. v. Staats

How courts have described this case

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• court may consider whether threat was conditional or whether employee indicated an intent to follow through with the threat
• an employee's threat of hitting his manager if the manager hit him again does not amount to misconduct where the manager initiated physical contact by slapping the employee, thus amounting to justifiable provocation; in addition, the threat was de minimis in nature under the circumstances
• affirming the grant of benefits to the employee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).