Yetterant v. Ward Trucking Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding allegation of specific intent to harm fails to state cause of action for wrongful discharge under Pennsylvania law
• finding that “to survive a challenge of failure to state a cause of action, complaint must establish violation of a public policy”
• absolute privilege of statements made by employer in termination letter are abused and, thereby, lost only when the employer publishes the defamatory material to unauthorized parties
• “the Clay and Paul cases ... clearly hold that the only exception to the employment at-will doctrine is where the discharge violates clear mandates of public policy”
• exception recognized in \only the most limited of circumstances\
• exception recognized in “only the most limited of circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).