Discrimination / Retaliation *Morman v. Campbell County Memorial Hospital (10th Cir., December 2, 2015) (failure to plead plausible gender-discrimination claim, and defendants are individually entitled to qualified immunity) Labor Unions *International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 627 v. NLRB (10th Cir., December 3, 2015) (affirming NLRB finding that the union violated the National Labor Relations […]
Discrimination & Retaliation *Cink v. Grant County, Oklahoma (10th Cir., November 27, 2015) (reversing the district court’s conclusion that the county was not Cink’s employer and therefore not liable under Cink’s age discrimination and disability claims) Miscellaneous *Sanders v. Anoatubby (10th Cir., November 23, 2015) (a hostile-work-environment/wrongful-termination case in the Chickasaw Nation dismissed for lack of jurisdiction) […]
Unemployment AppealsWhite v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., November 19, 2015) (declining to disturb the decision of the Workforce Services Board denying White unemployment benefits)
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination *Kreso v. McDonald (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (affirming district court’s refusal to overturn Veteran’s Affairs Disciplinary Appeals Board’s termination of Kreso’s employment) Discrimination & Retaliation *Cory v. City of Basehor (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (upholding summary judgment against Cory on his claim that the city terminated him as a police officer in retaliation for exercising his […]
Miscellaneous *Daniels v. Perez (10th Cir., November 5, 2015) (dismissing as moot claims that the Department of Homeland Security has improperly delegated to the Department of Labor its decision-making responsibility as to the grant or denial of H-2B temporary labor certifications)
Discrimination & Retaliation *McElroy v. American Family Insurance (10th Cir., October 30, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant on McElroy’s hostile work environment and retaliation claims) False Claims *Troxler v. Warren Clinic, Inc. (10th Cir.,October 28, 2015) (affirming dismissal of qui tam claim of fraudulent billing under Rule 12(b)(6)) Miscellaneous *Peavy v. Labor Source, LLC (10th Cir., October 27, 2015)(declining […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Rivera v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming denial of social security benefits) *Pham v. James (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming dismissal of Pham’s Title VII EEOC claims—workplace harassment based on disability and retaliation—for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies) *Hays v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 22, 2015) (reversing and remanding denial of […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Adams v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 15, 2015)(affirming finding of no disability) *Gabriel v. Colorado Mountain Medical, P.C. (10th Cir.,October 13, 2015) (affirming summary judgment against Gabriel on her Family Medical Leave Act claim) *Cases marked with an asterisk are cases the 10th Circuit does not consider binding precedent except […]
Discrimination and Retaliation *Brown v. Lowe’s Home Centers (10th Cir.,October 8, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Lowe’s on Brown’s racial discrimination claims: disparate treatment, retaliation, and hostile work environment) *Housley v. Spirit Aerosystems, Inc. (10th Cir.,October 9, 2015) (affirming trial court on Housley’s age discrimination (ADEA)claim) *Cases marked with an asterisk are cases […]
Discrimination and Retaliation *Schlecht v. Lockheed Martin Corporation (10th Cir., September 28, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Lockheed on Schlecht’s disability discrimination claim) Unemployment Gray v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., October1, 2015) (declining to disturb board determination that Gray quit his positionwithout good cause, making him ineligible for unemployment benefits) Workers Compensation/Occupational […]
