Valentine v. General American Credit, Inc

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employee could not recover, damages for mental distress for breach of employment contract
• holding that mental distress damages are not available for breach of an employment contract
• \The only right held in Toussaint to be enforceable was the right that arose out of the promise not to terminate except for cause\
• “[a]bsent a contractual provision for job security, either the employer or the employee may ordinarily terminate an employment contract at any time for any, or no, reason”
• employee could not recover mental-distress damages for breach of employment contract, and he could not recover exemplary damages unless he pled purposeful tortious conduct
• extent of just cause obligation is based on agreement of the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).