Case: Individual Employment Rights/Contracts (D. Mass.)

A group of hospitals consisting of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation, and Partners Healthcare System, Inc., is entitled to summary judgment on an Israeli citizen’s breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and Title VII national origin discrimination claims asserting she was improperly terminated from their Joint Nephrology Fellowship Program, a federal court in Massachusetts ruled. Her offer letter only proposed an “appointment” to the program, without contemplating a four-year term, so she didn’t establish breach based on her subjective understanding that it was a four-year program, nor did ...