Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Burton v. Vectrus Systems Corporation (10th Cir., November 2, 2020) (affirming award of costs to Vectrus on Burton’s whistleblower retaliation claim: Defendant need not be awarded damages to be considered the “prevailing party” for purposes of awarding costs) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of […]
Discrimination~Retaliation Bird v. West Valley City (10th Cir., October 14, 2020) (affirming verdict in favor of West Valley on Bird’s first amendment retaliation claim: the district court did not err in denying a new trial, nor was the language in the verdict form erroneous)
Discrimination~Retaliation Sanderson v. Wyoming Highway Patrol (10th Cir., September 30, 2020) (affirming dismissal of Sanderson’s retaliation claim but reversing summary judgment on her hostile work environment claim: A reasonable jury could find that she had raised genuine issues of fact as to the severity and pervasiveness prong of her hostile work environment claim)
Discrimination~Retaliation Baca v. Department of the Army (10th Cir., September 2, 2020) (affirming the Merit Systems Protection Board’s determination that Baca’s termination was not unlawful retaliation for whistleblowing: attempting to intimidate a witness into providing a false statement is not protected conduct under the Whistleblower Protection Act) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Earles v. Cleveland (10th Cir., August 28, 2020) (affirming dismissal with prejudice of the due process theories in connection with Earles’s sex discrimination claim: Earles failed to raise a liberty interest worthy of procedural due process protection) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Robinson v. Barrett (10th Cir., August 7, 2020) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Barrett, the secretary of the Air Force, on Robinson’s retaliation claim: she failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the reasons for the Air Force’s actions were pretextual) *Cejka v. Vectrus Systems Corporation […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation Bunn v. Perdue (10th Cir., July 28, 2020) (dismissing as untimely Bunn’s challenge to summary judgment in favor of Perdue) *Jorita v. Gray-Little (10th Cir., July 27, 2020) (reversing denial of qualified immunity to administrators of the University of Kansas on Jorita’s claim that she was fired in retaliation for exercising her […]
Contract ~ Noncompete ~ Trade Secret ~ Wrongful Termination *Wyles v. Brady (10th Cir., July 22, 2020) (affirming dismissal of Wyles’s claims against Brady for malicious prosecution and outrageous conduct in connection with Wyles’s termination (for fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets) after seeking to reveal misconduct by corporate officers: Insufficient contacts existed between Brady and Colorado to establish personal […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (U.S., July 8, 2020) (reversing judgment in favor of plaintiffs on their disability- and age-discrimination claims: as employees of religious institutions, the First Amendment’s religion clauses foreclose the adjudication of their employment-discrimination claims) *Wilson v. Textron Aviation, Inc. (10th Cir., July 8, 2020) (affirming summary […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Wu v. Bernhardt (10th Cir., June 26, 2020) (dismissing appeal for lack of jurisdiction and affirming dismissal for improper claim splitting) Public Employers / Employees Sawyers v. Norton (10th Cir., June 23, 2020) (affirming denial of qualified immunity to Defendant detention officers: the appellate court lacked jurisdiction on interlocutory review to address […]
