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GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO. v. PORTILLA

No. D-3000.

879 S.W.2d 47 (1994)

GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Hortencia PORTILLA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 22, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe R. Greenhill, Patrick O. Keel, Austin, Richard R. Brann, Reagan Burch, Houston, for petitioner.

John Griffin, Jr., Cynthia T. Sheppard, Robert P. Houston, Victoria, Christa Brown, Austin, for respondent.

GAMMAGE, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, and GONZALEZ, HIGHTOWER, DOGGETT, CORNYN and SPECTOR, Justices, join.

This is an employment contract dispute in which the jury made findings that Goodyear had modified its "at-will" employment contract with Hortencia Portilla in at least two ways: Portilla could be terminated only for "good cause," and could not be discharged for violating Goodyear's anti-nepotism policy. The trial...

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