What You Need to Know

• The Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of retaliatory termination suit by Safelite employee in Connecticut who filed his complaint in New Jersey.
• Choice-of-law analysis says Connecticut law applies to the case, but the plaintiff is time-barred from suing in that state.
• Given the court's finding that Connecticut law applies, there was no need to decide if a sufficient connection exists between his firing and his intervention in two New Jersey colleagues' cases.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld the firing of a Connecticut man who sued his employer for retaliatory discharge in New Jersey.

New Jersey’s choice-of-law rules require that, under the circumstances, the substantive law of Connecticut should be applied to Nicholas Walters’ suit against Safelite Fulfillment, the auto glass repair company, the appeals court said.

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