Mission Petroleum Carriers, Inc. v. Solomon

joined by Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice WAINWRIGHT, and an opinion with respect to Parts III— A, III-B & III-D, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, and Justice WAINWRIGHT.

Mission Petroleum Carriers, Inc. terminated Roy Solomon, an at-will employee, for failing a random drug test. Solomon sued Mission, contending that it breached a common-law duty by not exercising ordinary care in the manner it collected his urine specimen for testing. Mission claims that this lawsuit is essentially a suit for negligent discharge, which is…