Discrimination Rowe v. United Airlines (10th Cir., April 16, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of United Airlines on FMLA and ADA claims and Illinois Human Rights Act based on plaintiff dishonesty) Public Employees Valencia v. City of Santa Fe (10th Cir., April 14, 2015) (upholding denial of post-judgment relief and dismissing for lack of […]
Workers Compensation Pickup v. Colvin (10th Cir., April 6, 2015) (affirming denial of social security benefits because plaintiff’s testimony was contradictory and not credible) Unemployment Preferred Hot Oil, LLC, v. Department of Workforce Services(Utah Ct. App., April 9, 2015) (declining to disturb the DWS Board’s determination that claimant was discharged by Preferred Hot Oil as […]
Discrimination Coleman v. General Motors (10th Cir., April 1, 2015) (affirming summary judgement in favor of defendants on Coleman’s hostile work environment claim because Coleman’s allegation are insufficient to establish a prima facie case) Clay v. UPS (10th Cir., April 1, 2015) (affirming summary judgement in favor of UPS on Clay’s claims of hostile environment […]
Discrimination EEOC v. Beverage Distributors Company, LLC (10th Cir., March 16, 2015) (discrimination claim by blind employee; reversing based on district court’s erroneous direct threat instruction) Jones v. McHugh, Secretary of the Army (10th Cir., March 16, 2015) (affirming summary judgement against Jones in the absence of evidence of improper motive) Contract Andersen v. Department […]
Public Employees Seifert v. Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas (10th Cir., February 27, 2015) (affirming in part and reversing in part conclusions as to plaintiff’s testimony against public officers and potentially pretextual reasons for his dismissal and mistreatment) Discrimination/Retaliation Tadlock v. Marshall County HMA, LLC (10th Cir., February 25, 2015) (reversing summary judgment in […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease Carver v. Colvin (10th Cir., January 20, 2015) (affirming denial of supplemental security income) Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Velez v. DeBry & Associates (Utah Ct. App., January 23, 2015) (affirming the lower court’s finding that res judicata barred Velez from litigating his claim in district court because he failed to bring […]
Defamation Singer v. Steidley (10th Cir., December 18, 2014) (dismissing for lack of jurisdiction questions of defamation as well as qualified and absolute immunity) Discrimination Hartigan v. Utah Transit Authority (10th Cir., December 10, 2014) (upholding summary judgement in favor of the UTA on Hartigan’s Title VII claims for gender discrimination and retaliation) Workers’ Compensation […]
Contract Tomlinson v. NCR Corporation (Utah, November 25, 2014 ) (reversing Court of Appeals determination that NCR’s corporate management policy manual established an implied-in-fact contract (rebutting Tomlinson’s status as an at-will employee); no implied covenant where no contract exists) Discrimination Melin v. Verizon Business, Inc. (10th Cir., November 25, 2014) (upholding summary judgement in favor […]
Johnson v. City of Shelby, Mississippi (U.S., November 10, 2014) (summarily reversing summary judgment based upon petitioners’ failure to invoke 42 USC 1983 in their complaint, citing the federal rules’ short, plain statement language) Alarid v. Colvin, Acting Commissioner (10th Cir., November 21, 2014) (affirming denial of social security benefits despite severe impairments, as Alarid […]
Giles v. Mineral Resources International, Inc. (Utah Ct. App., October 30, 2014) (breach of fiduciary duty based upon covenant not to compete) Moffett v. Colvin, Acting Commissioner (10th Cir., October 30, 2014) (affirming denial of application for disability insurance benefits) Hutchins v. Cessna Aircraft Company (10th Cir., October 30, 2014) (affirming summary judgement in favor […]
