Legal Opinion
John T. Eastman v. Marine Mechanical Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 15, 2006No. 03-4591PublishedCited by 339 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff John Eastman appeals from the decision of the district court granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment on an Ohio common-law claim of retaliatory employment discharge in violation of public policy. The complaint, originally filed in an Ohio state court, identified federal law as the source of the public policy violated by the defendant, and it was on that basis that the defendant claimed in its removal notice that the case “[arose] under the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States,” 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1441(b), and thus…
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