GRIESS v. CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS CORP.

No. 89-19.

776 P.2d 752 (1989)

Mark GRIESS and Robert Pate, Petitioners, v. CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS CORPORATION OF DELAWARE, Steve Lindner, and Does I and II, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

July 5, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Q. Phelan, Cheyenne, for petitioners.

George Santini of Graves, Santini & Villemez, Cheyenne, for Wyoming Trial Lawyers Associations, Amicus Curiae Committee in support of position of petitioners.

George Zunker of Sullivan & Zunker, Cheyenne, and Lee Dale (argued) and Gilbert M. Roman of Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., for respondents.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


CARDINE, Chief Justice.

We are presented with the following certified question from the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit:

"Whether Wyoming law provides an employee, injured in the course of his employment, a cause of action against his employer for retaliatory discharge based upon a violation of the State's public policy, where the employer discharges the employee as a result of the employee's worker's compensation claim and where the employee...

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