CHAPPELL v. SOUTHERN MARYLAND HOSP.

No. 148 September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 483 (1990)

578 A.2d 766

ROBERT L. CHAPPELL v. SOUTHERN MARYLAND HOSPITAL, INC., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan I. Finkelstein (Kathleen T. Barlow, Deso & Greenberg, P.C., all on brief) Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Leslie Robert Stellman (John W. Kyle, Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy of Baltimore, John F.X. Costello, Landover, all on brief), for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and CHASANOW, JJ., and ADKINS, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In Adler v. American Standard Corp., 291 Md. 31, 47, 432 A.2d 464 (1981), we recognized that a tort action for abusive or wrongful discharge of an at-will employee could in a proper case arise in Maryland "when the motivation for the discharge contravenes some clear mandate of public policy." The case now before us involves an action filed by Robert L. Chappell against the...

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