Wagner v. City of Globe

How courts have described this case

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• holding invalid city council's attempt to ratify police chief's dismissal of police officer after police officer commenced a wrongful discharge action
• stating that the presence of disclaiming language in a personnel manual may not insulate an employer from liability if contrary oral or written assurances are given to the employee because such assurances may constitute implied contracts
• permitting at-will employee to survive summary judgment where personnel rule provides that employee may be fired only by \appointing power\ and course of conduct of employer suggests that rule was regularly followed
• question whether affirmance of unauthorized dismissal could be inferred from failure to repudiate it was a jury question
• wrongful termination includes employee discharged for exercising a legal right
• applying both Wagenseller and Leikvold retroactively

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