Horton v. Prepared Media Laboratory, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals a summary judgment dismissing her claim for breach of contract arising out of defendant’s 1 failure to pay her severance benefits as provided in a severance policy that defendant purported to revoke before plaintiff was terminated. Plaintiff argues that she is entitled to the severance benefits as a matter of law, because she already had earned them under the terms of the policy before the purported revocation. Defendant argues that severance benefits are not “earned” and that, in any event, plaintiffs right to receive them always was contingent upon defendant’s right to…