Daniel ThiemeDale Deitchler
When an employee of a health system is terminated after testing positive for marijuana use, can she maintain a claim for wrongful termination because she had legal authorization for the use under the state’s medicinal marijuana statute? FACTS OF THE CASE Pennsylvania enacted the Medical Marijuana ...
For example, employers use them to enforce noncompete agreements and provisions allowing them to clawback hiring bonuses and other compensation. You may also file for unemployment benefits on the basis that the workplace was untolerable and employers will use your resignation letter as proof you s...
and at the subsequent trial, Maria proved beyond dispute that she had not been smoking marijuana, and therefore should not have been fired. The jury agreed and awarded her almost a year’s worth of wages as damages. Good for
additional time. So every single case of the 2000 that come in, all of the letters that come in, get screened and then we sort of have this whittling down process and we use students, interns and clinical law students to go through all of...
He allegedly never used marijuana at the work- place, and was never under the influence of marijuana while at work. The Colorado Court of Appeals found the plaintiff's termination was lawful because, despite Colo- rado's decision to permit the use of medical marijuana, the plaintiff's use ...