Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Decided December 12, 1996PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
CONLEY, J.A.D.
In December 1989, plaintiff was fired from his job as foreman by defendant Joseph Savage, the plant manager of the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Delair, New Jersey1 in which plaintiff worked. In 1990, plaintiff filed a Law Division action which included allegations that his termination was racially motivated in violation of the Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to 42(LAD), and that his termination was in violation of a company policy manual (a Woolley2 common law wrongful discharge claim). In October 1993, summary judgment was…
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