-- Annie Fisher
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/22/wrongful-termination-employment/
That's on THAT side of the coin...
Most wrongful termination lawsuits have solid grounds- like
-Whistle blower retaliation
- Termination for jury duty
Refusal to break the law at the request of the employer
Invasion of Privacy
harassment
discrimination
Defamation of Character
Paterno wouldn't have sued for any of these...would have resulted in even more of what was under the surface coming out..
Paterno isn't suing for anything, he's dead. So he isn't on the staff anymore. See how that works? We weren't talking about Paterno. He was fired without cause because he was an at will employee. Curley, Schultz, and Spanier are NOT at will employees. Penn State has an employee manual/university policy and it requires its professionals in staff and faculty in non-tenure positions to be fired for cause. Firing for other than cause is grounds for a lawsuit. Send your idiot "authority" Annie I-couldn't-care-less an e-mail and she'll explain the difference to you between tenure, contract, staff protected, staff exempt and at will employees.
And please stop trying to cite idiots as authorities. CNN as a business resource? On FR? Seriously? I've already told you, your little Walmart or McDonalds benefits and "protections" don't apply to professionals.
Some local sports guy NO ONE outside of San Francisco has ever heard of hates Paterno, and felt safe enough behind the lynch mob to trash him in a blog five people read. Big Deal. Like you, he's a coward, talking lies and misinformation and hiding your lies and misinformation behind vocal morons in a herd that -- amazingly -- actually know even less than you.
It would be condign punishment, and exactly what the Law of Karma demands for you to lose your job someday on the basis of an accusation without any basis, but I don't wish that on you. Apparently, it's important to you to trash somebody who can't defend himself, who has never been found guilty of any crime as if he were an accessory to them. The record clearly shows he was not. So we have to ask: why is telling these lies to important to The Coliform?