Court Opinion

ID: 9559624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:32:28.093335+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:26.420241
License: Public Domain

KENNARD, J.
I concur in the judgment and in the overruling of this court’s decision in Gantt v. Sentry Insurance (1992) 1 Cal.4th 1083 [4 Cal.Rptr.2d 874, 824 P.2d 680] (Gantt) insofar as it held that a cause of action for wrongful termination in violation of public policy may not be based on a public policy expressed in a validly enacted regulation, but only on a public policy articulated in a statutory or constitutional provision. For the reasons stated in my concurring and dissenting opinion in Gantt (id. at p. *911101), I remain of the view that a discharged employee should be permitted to recover tort damages for wrongful termination whenever the employer’s action in discharging the employee violated a fundamental public policy delineated in existing law, regardless of the source of that law, including fundamental public policies delineated in administrative regulations and judicial decisions.