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DeROSE v. PUTNAM MANAGEMENT CO.

398 Mass. 205 (1986)

496 N.E.2d 428

SALVATORE DeROSE vs. PUTNAM MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 12, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Schwartz (Robert A. Griffith with him) for the plaintiff.

Timothy P. O'Neill (Jayne Conroy with him) for the defendant.

Lynn A. Girton & Marjorie Heins, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS NOLAN & O'CONNOR, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

The plaintiff, Salvatore DeRose, a former at-will employee of the defendant, Putnam Management Company, Inc., brought an action on a theory of breach of contract for wrongful discharge. The gravamen of the complaint is that the defendant wrongfully discharged the plaintiff in reprisal for the plaintiff's testimony at the criminal trial of another employee for the theft of some securities. The question presented...

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