Kern v. Palmer College of Chiropractic

HECHT, Justice.

In this case, a discharged employee sued his former employer for breach of an employment contract, and sued three of the employer’s agents for tortious interference with that contract. The district court concluded the termination was, as a matter of law, for cause and granted summary judgment to all of the defendants. We conclude the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the employer and one of the three individual defendants.

I.Factual and Procedural Background.

A reasonable fact-finder viewing the summary judgment record in the light most favorable to the…