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JANES v. WAL-MART STORES INC.

No. 00-55611.

279 F.3d 883 (2002)

Jeffrey M. JANES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WAL-MART STORES INC., dba Sam's Club, Defendant-Appellant, and Gary Dawes, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 4, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon A. Shoenberger, Schlecht, Shevlin & Shoenberger, Palm Springs, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Linda Miller Savitt, Christine T. Hoeffner, Dawn Cushman, Ballard, Rosenberg, Golper & Savitt, Universal City, CA, for the defendant-appellant.

Before: B. FLETCHER, D.W. NELSON, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Wal-Mart appeals the district court judgment following a jury verdict in favor of its ex-employee, Jeffrey Janes, in a wrongful termination suit. Alleging the existence of an implied-in-fact contract with Wal-Mart not to terminate him except for good cause, Janes claims that Wal-Mart breached this contract by firing him after he cooked and ate expired meat taken from Wal-Mart's waste barrel. Specifically, Wal-Mart appeals the district court...

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