An Interesting Ruling on Self-Defense and Job Termination

From The National Law Review we get the following: Colorado Supreme Court Decision on Wrongful Termination Claims

The SCOTUS ruling about Hawaii's so-called Vampire Law has drowned this out of the news, or I didn't see much about it. A very interesting ruling was handed down by the Colorado State Supreme Court on June 15th about wrongful termination suits.

The TL;DR version is as follows.

• The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that employees may bring wrongful termination claims if fired for acting in self-defense, even if their lawful exercise of the right to self-defense violates employer policies prohibiting confrontations.
• The court identified a public-policy exception to at-will employment, emphasizing that termination cannot penalize employees for exercising their statutory and constitutional right of self-defense.
• The decision highlights potential wrongful termination liability for employers if they discharge employees for lawful actions taken in self-defense in the workplace.

This is interesting because every large pizza chain forbids its delivery drivers to be armed. Uber and Lyft have similar rules for their drivers, though they are not, strictly speaking, employees. I assume that places like GurbHub and DoorDash have a similar rule. I am guessing that a lot of restaurant and gas station chains have similar laws.

Anyone with a violent stalker needs to be armed in their own defense. But the places where they are disarmed is exactly those places where they are on a known schedule at a known location. To and from work. Picking up and dropping off kids at school and/or daycare. Going to church.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out in Colorado, and to see if this idea gets transfered to other states. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms)