Thompto v. Coborn's Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing public policy consists of matters that are fundamental to citizens’ social rights, duties, and responsibilities
• recognizing the public-policy exception is based on the theory “that the law should not allow employees to be fired for reasons that violate public policy”
• holding that limiting the privilege to statements made only by employers and not by employees would “create an insupportable conundrum of holding defendants liable for statements qualified in one context but not in a context that has nothing to do with the defendants’ conduct”
• noting that the “State Constitution itself’ may be a source of public policy
• granting summary judgment as to some claims, but denying summary judgment on claim of retaliatory discharge in violation of public policy
• applying defense of qualified privilege to alleged defamatory statements self-published by the plaintiff-employee to prospective employers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).