Legal Opinion
Donald E. Smith v. Calgon Carbon Corporation and Merck & Co., Inc. Appeal of Calgon Carbon Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 31, 1990No. 89-3617PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
STAPLETON, Circuit Judge:
We here review a proceeding in which the plaintiff, Donald E. Smith, achieved a sizeable jury verdict on a Pennsylvania state law cause of action for wrongful discharge. 1 At trial, Smith, an at-will employee, argued that he had been dismissed because of certain activities he undertook on the suspicion that his employer, Calgon Carbon Company (“CCC”), had polluted water and air. The jury awarded Smith $222,-000 in compensatory damages and $181,150 in punitive damages. The defendant now attacks both the legal and factual bases for plaintiff’s award,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Geary v. United States Steel Corp.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Sondra L. McKenna and James R. McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- Robertson v. Allied Signal, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1990
- Clay v. Advanced Computer Applications, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
- Jaime Blum, Brij Kapur and James C. Spitsbergen, in 86-5349 v. Witco Chemical Corporation, in 86-5310Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1987
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3Cited by56 opinions
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- Joe J. Jordan James E. Mitchell Jordan Mitchell, Inc. v. Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Joe J. Jordan James E. Mitchell Jordan Mitchell, Inc., on Their Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Arnold T. Berman Myron J. Berman John J. Petit, Jr., Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Joe J. Jordan James E. Mitchell Jordan Mitchell, Inc., at No. 92-1424, Arnold T. Berman and Myron J. Berman, at No. 92-1456Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1994
- Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. v. BotticellaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2010
- Sarah Borse v. Piece Goods Shop, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1992
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