Legal Opinion
Fair v. Red Lion Inn
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 30, 1997No. 95SC753PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
In Fair v. Red Lion Inn, 920 P.2d 820 (Colo.App.1995), we granted certiorari to address a single question: whether as a matter of law, the refusal of an employee to accept her former employer’s unconditional offer of reinstatement, after a breach of contract by the employer, constitutes a failure to mitigate damages on the part of the employee.1 Because we conclude that a discharged employee has a duty to mitigate damages by accepting an unconditional offer of reinstatement in the absence of special circumstances, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.
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