Richard Grimwood, Petitioner v. University of Puget Sound, Inc., Respondent

Summary

The court affirmed summary judgment for the University on the employee's age-discrimination, implied-contract, and wrongful-discharge claims. It held that the employee's conclusory affidavit statements and deposition testimony did not create a genuine factual dispute about discriminatory motive, that the University complied with its personnel-manual policies, and that the public-policy tort claim therefore failed. The court expressly reserved whether wrongful-discharge liability may be based on a statute that already provides a remedy.