On Tuesday, December 6th, D. Scott Crook will be a presenter in a two-day Continuing Education event hosted by the National Business Institute entitled Advanced Employment Law: What You Need to Know. Mr. Crook will be instructing on important topics for lawyers and human resource professionals: LGBT/Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Navigating the Changing Legal Landscape, and […]
D. Scott Crook, the creator of The Utah Employment Lawyer and president of D. Scott Crook Law, PC, was nominated by his peers for inclusion in the 2017 Edition of Best Lawyers in America for Labor and Employment Litigation. Mr. Crook, who has also been named as a Mountain States Super Lawyer and as Utah Legal Elite […]
On Friday, May 13, 2016, D. Scott Crook will be a presenter in a Continuing Legal Education event hosted by the National Business Institute entitled Attorneys’ Guide to Local Government Law. Mr. Crook will be instructing on important topics related to employment lawyers who frequently appear on behalf of and before public entities: Public Records […]
As a lawyer and a religious person, I was deeply concerned about the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding same-sex marriage. The decision reflects attitudes and beliefs that give me great concern about the continuing protection of my right to exercise my religion. I hope to respectfully explain why I am so concerned. The Decision Affects […]
Recently, Myton, a small city located in Duchesne County, has come under scrutiny for hiring as a police chief a former police officer that had a long history of criminal stalking charges filed against him. The history is detailed in a recent Deseret News Article entitled “Did undocumented stalking allegations help officer land new jobs?” […]
The Utah Court of Appeals upheld a trial court’s summary judgment dismissal of a former employee’s claim against Target for breach of contract, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and defamation. In a twenty page opinion, the court said that the employee, who had been caught on camera taking a customer’s wallet, had no […]
The following cases affecting Utah employment law were released during the week of August 11th:Utah Court of Appeals: Prows v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App., August 14, 2014) (declining, on the bases of what the definition of “is” is, to disturb refusal to find gainfully employed petitioner permanently and totally disabled)Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals: […]
In Clark v. Cache Valley Electric Co. (10th Cir., July 25, 2014), the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal district court had properly dismissed a gender discrimination and retaliation claim brought by a Utah employee of Cache Valley Electric. The employee claimed that a supervisor was favoring an employee who had allegedly been […]
In a case decided today, Dalpiaz v. Carbon County, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Carbon County’s decision to discharge a benefits administrator when she “acted insubordinately by choosing to submit her FMLA forms at almost the literal last minute, more than seven weeks after the county made its first request for these forms […]
Since 2009, The Utah Employment Lawyer Blog has posted important information about events and legislation and cataloged cases that relate exclusively to Utah employers. In the last month, The Utah Employment Lawyer, created by D. Scott Crook, a partner at the boutique Utah law firm Arnold & Crook PLLC, has gone through a major overhaul […]
