Van Baale v. City of Des Moines

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[ejqual protection applies only if the claimant can point to another class whose members enjoy some benefit or right denied to the claimant”
• noting that actions in contract and tort can be barred by a statute, providing the exclusive remedy for wrongful discharge is administrative
• noting that “outrageous conduct” standard “is not easily met, especially in the employment cases”
• holding police officer’s termination did not amount to outrageous conduct after his supervisor recanted the “guarantee” to continued employment if he entered guilty and nolo contendere pleas on a domestic abuse charge instead of proceeding to trial as initially planned
• firing police officer after assuring him he would not be fired if he pleaded guilty to charges was not sufficiently outrageous
• requiring conduct that is “extremely egregious; mere insult, bad manners, or hurt feelings are insufficient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).