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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What we have, therefore, are two dynamic lawmakers—generators of public policy— that function sometimes in separate spheres (e.g., common law courts do not enact criminal laws) but typically act, as I have tried to *174demonstrate, to improve the law in the same arenas; e.g. landlord and tenant, consumer protection, tort law, and employer-employee relations. It is important to keep in mind that the ideas underlying some of the very statutes that protect people against unconscionable and retaliatory behavior reflect doctrines created by the courts interpreting an evolving common law. In fact, to bring the analysis squarely to the case before us, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in using public policy to ban retaliatory evictions, relied by analogy on a California ease that was the first to apply the public policy exception to an employer’s retaliatory, and thus wrongful, discharge of an employee.57

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