Legal Opinion

Cucchi v. New York City Off-Track Betting Corp.

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided April 15, 1993No. 91 Civ. 5624 (KC)PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

CONBOY, District Judge:

Plaintiff and defendants have both moved for partial summary judgment. For the reasons that follow, plaintiffs motion is denied, and defendant’s motion is granted in part, and denied in part. 1

I. Breach of Contract

Plaintiff claims that defendants violated express and implied contracts of employment between plaintiff and defendants when defendants terminated plaintiff. We disagree.

“It is [well] settled law in New York that, absent an agreement establishing a fixed duration, an employment relationship is presumed to be a hiring at-will, terminable at any time by…

2Cases cited56 opinions

  1. Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Bishop v. WoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Whalen v. RoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1983
  5. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. HorowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1978

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3Cited by29 opinions

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  3. Kraft v. City of New YorkDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2010
  4. Coakley v. JaffeDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1999
  5. Chau v. DonovanDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 2019

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