Employment Law Court Rulings

Public employment—In order to negate statutory rights of public employees, a collective bargaining agreement must use language with such specificity as to explicitly demonstrate that the intent of the parties was to preempt statutory rights.

Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Idaho, Ada County. Honorable Michael McLaughlin, District Judge. The decision of the district court following trial is affirmed.

Employment relations—Labor unions—Collective bargaining agreement—Arbitration—Arbitrator, after determining there was just cause to discipline an employee, has authority to review appropriateness of type of discipline imposed, when.

Retaliation Temporal Proximity Causation Wrongful Termination in Violation of Public Policy Free Speech State Action. In the absence of state action, the free speech protections of the Ohio Constitution do not generally provide a basis for an at-will employee to raise a claim of wrongful…

Pursuant to the common law of this state, communications made in the course of and in furtherance of administrative proceedings that are quasi-judicial in nature are absolutely privileged. Pursuant further to Kelley v. Bonney (221 Conn. 549), in determining whether an administrative proceeding is…

Motion for judgment on the pleadings Civ.R. 12 Civ.R. 8 Civ.R. 10 pro se litigant false imprisonment confinement force threat of force breach of contract constitutional deprivation state actor discrimination. Appellant failed to plead actionable claims for false imprisonment, breach of contract,…

The plaintiff, a minority member of the defendant B Co., a Connecticut limited liability company, sought to recover damages from B Co. and the defendant C for, inter alia, breach of contract, and sought the dissolu- tion of B Co. on the ground of oppressive conduct. The plaintiff and C formed B Co.…

CONTRACTS — SUMMARY JUDGMENT — R.C. 2721.12: The trial court properly entered summary judgment in favor of plaintiff employee on plaintiff's declaratory-judgment claim that tenure entitled plaintiff to continued employment absent just cause for his termination, because plaintiff met his initial…