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Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)

Citation
Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Parent Document
Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1997-09-23

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Plainly, employment law falls within the law-making function of the courts, as well as the legislature. Whatever one thinks of the at-will employment doctrine, the praise or blame belongs, historically, to the state courts, which invented it. At English common law, employment for an indefinite duration was presumed to be for a year.17 In the United States, however, the courts sooner or later adopted the at-will employment doctrine, as articulated in an oft-cited 1877 legal treatise by Horace G. Wood.18