Klein v. President & Fellows of Harvard College

After serving as the administrative director of the department of health policy and management at the Harvard school of public health (the department) for eighty-one days, the plaintiff was discharged from her employment by the department’s dean of academic affairs (the dean). The plaintiff then brought an action in the Superior Court seeking damages for breach of her. employment contract. After a bench trial, the judge found that, although the dean had had cause to discharge the plaintiff, he had not dismissed her on that basis. Rather, the dean had discharged the plaintiff as if she were a…