S. P. Growers Ass'n v. Rodriguez, 552 P.2d 721 (1976)

Citation: S. P. Growers Ass'n v. Rodriguez, 552 P.2d 721 (1976)
Parent Document: S. P. Growers Ass'n v. Rodriguez, 552 P.2d 721 (1976)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 1976-08-10
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1251104/s-p-growers-assn-v-rodriguez/ ↗

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(1959) 174 Cal.App.2d 184 [344 P.2d 25]. There an employee was discharged after he refused to testify falsely before an assembly committee. Even though the statutes prohibiting perjury did not affect conditions of employment, the court reasoned that “in order to more fully effectuate the state’s declared policy against perjury, the civil law, too, must deny the employer his generally unlimited right to discharge an employee whose employment is for an unspecified duration, when the reason for the dismissal is the employee’s refusal to commit perjury.” (Id., at p. 189.) As we said in Schweiger,

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