Legal Opinion
Larrabee v. Penobscot Frozen Foods, Inc.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 31, 1984PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
This appeal presents issues, novel in this jurisdiction, of whether an employee’s action for wrongful discharge may be grounded in improper motivation on the employer’s part and whether a private right of action may be implied from a statute that does not expressly authorize such a remedy.
The Plaintiffs, Michael W. Larrabee and Dana C. Chuprevich, appeal from the dismissal of four of the five counts of their complaint against the Defendant, Penob-scot Frozen Foods, Inc., by the Superior Court (Waldo County) pursuant to M.R. Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Prior to filing their notice of…
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