Legal Opinion
Yanez v. Plummer
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 5, 2013No. C070726PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BUTZ, J.
Plaintiff Michael Yanez sued his former employer, Union Pacific Railroad Company (Union Pacific), for wrongful discharge, as well as Union Pacific’s in-house counsel, Brian Plummer, for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud.
Union Pacific fired Yanez for dishonesty, citing a discrepancy between a witness statement that Yanez wrote and a deposition answer he gave concerning a coemployee’s on-the-job injury (the deposition answer occurred in the coemployee’s lawsuit against Union Pacific under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA; 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq.)). At…
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