Walker v. D.C. Department of Employment Services

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling evidence of employee severance offered contemporaneously with release of claims not barred when offered as evidence of discrimination, but later-made offers to settle claim are barred
• \[T]he California Supreme Court has spoken decisively [in saying] ... an allegation of breach of the implied covenant is a purely contractual claim.\
• “California law implies a covenant of good faith and fair dealing in every contract.”
• “[T]he California Supreme Court has spoken decisively [in saying] ... an allegation of breach of the implied covenant is a purely contractual claim.”
• release agreement barred under Federal Rule 408 where plaintiff “had retained legal counsel at the time the offer was made”
• reasonable inference of 13 age discrimination is undercut by retention of older employee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).