Aug 26, 2011

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Friday Diversion #4: Soon to Be a Cable Movie. Guaranteed.

This week’s diversion once again comes from the intersection of sex and work, but with an angle straight out of a Lifetime movie.

The Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported this week that the California Supreme Court denied review of a claim brought by a “cuckolded husband”1 against his wife’s new boyfriend…’s employer.

Yep.

The company, Challenger Sports Corporation, sets up soccer camps run by British soccer coaches. They bring the coaches in, and get local families to house them for the summer.

Do I have to go on? Yes? Ok.

It seems that the man and his wife signed up to house a young male athlete with a British accent for the entire summer, and it did not end exactly as either of them had planned. By the end of the soccer camp, Mrs. Plaintiff had “moved out of the bedroom, drained the family bank account, and served [the Plaintiff] with a divorce petition.”

So the guy did the only sensible thing: he sued Challenger Sports for breach of contract and fraud.

The Supreme Court of California wasn’t on board, though, holding that having an affair with your host’s wife is pretty clearly outside the scope of your employment, and any claim against the coach can’t be levied against the corporation.

Thankfully, the Court’s ruling in this case will take away that constant, nagging worry that one of your employees will open you up to liability by sleeping with someone’s wife.

What? You don’t have that nagging feeling? Well, lucky you, I guess.

1. Their words, not mine [↩]