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United States Second Circuit


Morris v. Schroder Capital Mgmt. Int'l, 05-0823

Dismissal of complaint for failure to state a claim for involuntary termination under the New York common law employee choice doctrine is affirmed as plaintiff has failed to plead that the working conditions at his former place of employment were so difficult or unpleasant that a reasonable person in his shoes would have felt compelled to resign.

Appellate Information

  • Decided 01/11/2007
  • Published 01/12/2007

Judges

  • PER CURIAM., Before McLAUGHLIN, CALABRESI, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

  • United States Second Circuit

Counsel

  • For Appellant:
  • Frank H. Wright, Frank H. Wright & Associates, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

  • For Appellees:
  • Mark G. Hanchet (Christine N. Kearns, Julia E. Judish, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.
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