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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

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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Judge STEADMAN would require that "public policy exceptions to the at-will employment doctrine be fashioned exclusively by the legislature" because, first, "the legislature is the proper organ of government to make and define the scope of public policy." Post at 197. He is half right—and thus half wrong. The courts as well as the legislature unquestionably—and legitimately—make public policy every day; "it is indisputable that our legal system assigns to courts a creative role in improving law."[1] Indeed, "[a] tradition of law improvement by creative judicial action has been part of the common law system from a point as near its beginnings as a custom can be said to have become tradition."[2]