LEONELLI v. PENNWALT CORP.

No. 866, Docket 88-7997.

887 F.2d 1195 (1989)

Peter D. LEONELLI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PENNWALT CORPORATION, Michael Young and T. Caddy, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Burns, 3rd, Syracuse, N.Y. (Martha L. Berry, Renee L. James, Hancock & Estabrook, Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

John D. Allen, Syracuse, N.Y. (John S. Westrick, Bond, Shoeneck & King, Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before CARDAMONE and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and LASKER, District Judge.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Appellant is an at will employee who took early retirement and thereby lost certain benefits provided by his employer. Although an employer has an unquestioned right to discharge such an employee, it still must take special pains not to act in such a way as to cause its employee to lose those benefits to which he may otherwise have been entitled. Whether the employer acted in good faith at the time when the employment relationship was ended...

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