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DuPONT v. PRESSMAN

No. 35, 1995.

679 A.2d 436 (1996)

E.I. DuPONT de NEMOURS AND COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, and David A. Pensak, Defendants Below, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Norman J. PRESSMAN, Plaintiff Below, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: May 2, 1996.

Revised: July 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Lukoff (argued), of Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee, Wilmington; Raymond Michael Ripple and Donna L. Goodman of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Gary W. Aber of Heiman, Aber & Goldlust, Wilmington, for appellee/cross-appellant.

Sheldon N. Sandler and Bhavana Sontakay Boggs of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, for Delaware State Chamber of Commerce and various corporations, amicus curiae.

Before VEASEY, C.J., WALSH, HOLLAND, BERGER, JJ., and ALLEN, Chancellor, constituting the Court en Banc.

VEASEY, Chief Justice:

In this appeal, we consider the scope of the employment-at-will doctrine (the "Doctrine") and the correlative application of the implied duty or covenant of good faith and fair dealing (the "Covenant") as a limitation on the Doctrine. We conclude that the scope of the Doctrine is broad. The Covenant is applicable here, but its scope is narrower than that articulated by the trial court. We reverse the...

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