Shero v. Grand Savings Bank

What was the legal issue? What did the court decide?

The legal issue in this case is whether terminating of an at will employee for his denial to drop his pending claims against a third party constitutes an infringement of public policy of Oklahoma such that will back an unlawful expulsion action against the employer under the restricted public policy exception to the employment-at-will policy. The trial court correctly dismissed Plaintiff/ Appellant's Petition in this matter. Employer did not violate public policy when it conditioned Employee's employment upon the Employee's abandonment of his counterclaim pursuant to the Open ...