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
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2395626/carl-v-childrens-hospital/ ↗

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First, comprehensive legislation is not necessarily going to provide more equitable results, or less litigation, than individual lawsuits. A Montana statute broadly permitting discharge of employees only for “good cause” is an example of legislation that apparently has resolved very little and, quite obviously, invites litigation.29 Moreover, adoption of META—even if we assume it to be the most carefully crafted, equitable formulation available—is not going to be a panacea that eliminates, or even necessarily reduces, litigation. Statutes spawn lawsuits, just as the common law does, and the fundamentals of META have been seriously challenged.30 In sum, no one has established to my satisfaction that we ought simply to abandon our common law responsibility to evaluate wrongful discharge claims on their merits, in favor of waiting for comprehensive legislative treatment that is likely to present its own controversies, its own vortex of litigation, and—of considerable significance—may never come to pass here.

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