Cases — February 2nd through 8th, 2020

Public Employees Haynes v. Department of Public Safety (Utah Ct. App., February 6, 2020) (reversing dismissal of Haynes’s breach of contract action: the relevant terms of the settlement agreement under which Haynes supposedly failed to perform were ambiguous) Wages Aguilar v. Management and Training Corp. (10th Cir., February 4, 2020) (reversing summary judgment in favor […]

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Cases — January 26th through February 1st, 2020

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Ade v. Conklin Cars Salina, LLC (10th Cir., January 30, 2020) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Conklin on her sex discrimination and retaliatory discharge claims: Ade did not show pretext, nor did the sales contest at issue trigger whistleblower law) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under […]

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Cases — January 5th through 11th, 2020

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Deere v. XPO Logistics Freight, Inc. (10th Cir., January 9, 2020) (affirming summary judgment in favor of XPO on his sex- and age-discrimination and retaliation claims: XPO’s actions were legitimate and nonpretextual) *Jackson v. Kansas City Kansas Public Schools Unified School District No. 500 (10th Cir., January 7, 2020) (affirming summary judgment […]

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Cases—December 1st through 7th, 2019

Discrimination ~ Retaliation Greer v. City of Witchita (10th Cir., December 3, 2019) (reversing summary judgment in defendants’ favor on Greer’s claims under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: the factfinder could reasonably infer that military status motivated denial of interview, and that Greer would have obtained interview had she not been military) […]

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Cases — November 24th through 30th, 2019

Discrimination~Retaliation *Payan v. UPS (10th Cir., November 25, 2019) (affirming summary judgment in favor of UPS on Payan’s racial discrimination and retaliation claims: UPS offered consistent justifications for its disciplinary decision, committed no procedural irregularities, and treated Payan no differently than similarly-situated employees) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the […]

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Cases — November 3rd through 9th, 2019

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Gaskin v. Science Applications International, Inc. (10th Cir., November 8, 2019) (affirming summary judgment in favor of SAI on Gaskin’s sex discrimination claim: SAI had a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason—inappropriate conduct—to terminate Gaskin) Tesone v. Empire Marketing Strategies (10th Cir., November 8, 2019) (reversing summary judgment in favor of Empire on Tesone’s ADA […]

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Cases — October 27th through November 2nd, 2019

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Lu v. University of Utah (10th Cir., October 29, 2019) (affirming dismissal of Lu’s retaliation, racial and national-origin discrimination, and ADA claims: Lu identified no cogent basis on which to reverse the district court’s dismissal) Wages Vander Veur v. Groove Entertainment Technologies (Utah, October 29, 2019)(reversing court of appeals: the covenant of […]

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Cases — September 29th through October 5th, 2019

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Ordonez v. ABM Aviation, Inc. (10th Cir., October 3, 2019) (dismissing as moot Ordonez’s Title VII sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims, settled in her personal bankruptcy action) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.

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Cases — September 22nd through 28th, 2019

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Simon v. City and County of Denver (10th Cir., September 24, 2019) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Denver on former police officer Simon’s claim that Denver fired her for taking FMLA leave: the record does not show that her termination was retaliatory) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, […]

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