Williams v. Brown

MILLER, Justice:

This case involves three questions certified to us by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County pursuant to W.Va.Code, 58-5-2 (1967). We are asked to decide the following issues: (I)-whether assistant attorneys general are at-will employees; (2) whether legislative enactments providing public employees with fringe benefits constitute an offer of continued employment that, when accepted, prohibit the Attorney General from firing assistant attorneys general except for cause; and (3) whether there is a duty of good faith and fair dealing in a public employment relationship that…