Legal Opinion
Jeffrey M. Janes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Dba Sam's Club, and Gary Dawes
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 4, 2002No. 00-55611PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
Wal-Mart appeals the district court judgment following a jury verdict in favor of its ex-employee, Jeffrey Janes, in a wrongful termination suit. Alleging the existence of an implied-in-fact contract with Wal-Mart not to terminate him except for good cause, Janes claims that Wal-Mart breached this contract by firing him after he cooked and ate expired meat taken from Wal-Mart’s waste barrel. Specifically, Wal-Mart appeals the district court’s denial of its motions for judgment as a matter of law and for a new trial.
Wal-Mart claims that the district court erred by…
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