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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Whatever its analytical shortcomings may have been, Wood's Rule was to find "a receptive legal environment in laissez-faire nineteenth century America." Weiner, supra, 457 N.Y.S.2d at 196, 443 N.E.2d at 444 (citation omitted). His treatise, after all, was about the law of master and servant, and the words master and servant meant what they saidmasters were masters and servants were servants.[2] "So strong indeed was the turn-of-the-century legal and socioeconomic philosophy that nurtured [the at-will rule] that for long Federal constitutional law deferred to it as well." Weiner, supra, 457 N.Y.S.2d at 196, 443 N.E.2d at 444 (citations omitted).[3] "By the arrival of the twentieth *176 century, the at-will doctrine was well-established throughout the United States and served to reinforce turn-of-the century ideas concerning laissez-faire economics and freedom to contract." Berube, supra, 771 P.2d at 1041 (citations omitted).

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