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Bammert v. Don's SuperValu, Inc.
Wisconsin Supreme Court (2002) | 2002 WI 85; 646 N.W.2d 365; 254 Wis. 2d 347; 18 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1480; 2002 Wisc. LEXIS 483
TL;DR: An employee was fired after her police officer husband arrested her boss's wife. The court refused to extend the tort of wrongful discharge to protect an employee from retaliation for the actions of their non-employee spouse, affirming the narrowness of the public policy exception.
Legal Significance: This case strictly limits the tort of wrongful discharge, holding that the public policy exception to at-will employment does not cover retaliation for the conduct of a third party, even a spouse, thereby reinforcing the narrowness of common law exceptions to the doctrine.