Watson v. Cleveland Chair Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• cautioning that public policy exceptions should be adopted “only in the most extraordinary circumstances” because public policy “is clearly a legislative function”
• recognizing a claim of retaliatory discharge when employee was terminated for refusing to participate or remaining silent about illegal activities
• rejecting exception where cause of discharge included employees’ resistance to violating vehicle safety regulations
• discussing the authority of courts to determine public policy
• considering the cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).