Korb v. Raytheon, 707 F.Supp. 63 (D.Mass. 1989)
In this case Lawrence J. Korb was terminated from his position as vice president for Washington operations of Raytheon Corporation simply because he expressed views, publicly is direct conflict with the corporation’s economic interest. Korb was denied his claim for wrongful discharge and for a violation of the State Civil Rights Act (LAWRENCE J. KORB vs. RAYTHEON CORPORATION. (n.d.). Korb had been with the United States Department of Defense for about four years, were he served as assistant secretary of defense for manpower, installations, and logistics. Korb later left the government and joined Raytheon Corporation as vice president in charge. Korb spoke at the company’s annual alternative defense budget conference, in which he said some things that many people in the Department of Defense did not like nor approve of (LAWRENCE J. KORB vs. RAYTHEON CORPORATION. (n.d.). After being told his job was in jeopardy, due to his recent sayings, he wrote a letter to the editor of the …show more content…
With Korb working for the Department of Defense for a number of years, he became knowledgeable of what was going on in the department and had a right to an opinion about it. However, after being terminated, Raytheon also had the right to silence Korb on speaking out about the company and still advocating for the company with no pay. With Korb acquiring information on the Raytheon Corporation, I do believe that the reason for Raytheon wanting to silence Korb on speaking out was because of so. However, the Freedom of Information Act states that you have the right to access information from the federal government (FOIA), F. O. (n.d.). It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government (FOIA), F. O. (n.d.). So if Korb was speaking out about things the public had access to know, then it was his lawful