1. Richard Mudd, an employee of Compuserve, is called for jury duty in Wayne Cou

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1. Richard Mudd, an employee of Compuserve, is called for jury duty in Wayne County, Michigan. His immediate supervisor, Harvey Lorie, lets him know that he “must” avoid jury duty at all costs. Mudd tells the judge of his circumstances and his need to be at work, but the judge refuses to let Mudd avoid jury duty. Mudd spends the next two weeks at trial. He sends regular e-mails and texts to Lorie during this time, but on the fourth day gets a text message from Lorie that says, “Don’t bother to come back.” When he does return, Lorie tells him he is fired. Does Mudd have a cause of action for the tort of wrongful discharge?

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1. In this case the employer cannot terminate the Richard because Richard has notified his supervisor Lorie that he is called for a Jury duty. Lorie Said that he must avoid Jury duty and he actually told the judge about his circumstances and still he was not released of the duty in this case if the organization is small and Richard is an essential employee then the employer needs to request for a judicial discretion hearing before the judge to ask for excusing Richard which was not done and in no circumstances can the duty of a Jury be avoided because that is illegal and it may lead to legal actions. In the mean time the employer cannot discriminate the employee or behave differently according to the law and as Richard is fired this is something illegal as per the Leagl Department under the Office of the Jury Commissioner and this case as per the law the organization can be sued for this wrongful discharge.

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