Ira Blake Phillips v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity case, Appellee Ira Blake Phillips sued his former employer, Appellant Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Goodyear) for wrongful discharge, contending that Goodyear terminated his employment in retaliation for Phillips’ having given truthful deposition testimony in a federal trial. The jury found that Phillips’ testimony was the sole reason for his discharge and awarded him $400,000 in actual damages. The district court entered judgment based upon the jury verdict. Concluding that neither Georgia nor Texas— the only two states whose substantive…