Metz v. BAE Sys. Tech.

Plaintiff filed suit alleging that BAE had tortiously interfered with his at-will employment arrangement in violation of District of Columbia law. Plaintiff filed a diversity case in federal district court but would like to have the dispositive question he raises on appeal decided by the District Court of Columbia Court of Appeals: whether District of Columbia law recognizes a cause of action for tortious interference with at will employment against a third party former employer who procured the plaintiff's discharge from his new employer. Because the question on which plaintiff seeks certification is neither genuinely uncertain nor of sufficient public importance to warrant burdening the D.C. Court of Appeals, the court denied the request. The court affirmed the judgment of that court because plaintiff does not ask this court to independently review the district court's resolution of that question. View "Metz v. BAE Sys. Tech." on Justia Law