Sullivan v. Harnisch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Nardelli, J.
The principal issue before us is whether an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine should be made for an employee who claims that his discharge violated his firm’s Code of Ethics, because his superior retaliated against him for his internal inquiries into the superior’s illegal trading activity. We hold that in this case such an exception does not exist and, in the absence of a specific contractual provision protecting plaintiff from termination, those causes of action which are founded on his claim that he had an implicit contractual right not to be…
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