Discrimination/Retaliation*Starr v. Quiktrip Corporation (10th Cir., March 1, 2018) (affirming judgment in favor of Quiktrip on Starr’s Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act: Starr did not show any reversible error.*Winston v. Ross (10th Cir., February 27, 2018) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the National Weather Service (Ross): Winston did not establish a prima facie discrimination […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination *Winger v. Meade District Hospital (10th Cir., June 27, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the hospital on Winger’s due process claim) Bahnmaier v. Northern Utah Healthcare Corporation (Utah Ct. App., June 29, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Northern Utah: the hospital’s substance abuse policy is not an implied […]
Discrimination/Retaliation *Bejar v. Department of Veterans Affairs (10th Circuit, March 28, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the Department of Veterans Affairs because Bejar could not show evidence of discrimination) *McCoy v. State of Wyoming (10th Circuit, March 28, 2017) (affirming dismissal of McCoy’s complaint, among other things, because it lacked any plausible discrimination […]
WagesCompton v. Houston Casualty Company (Utah, March 23, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Houston Casualty because the policy at issue only applies when an a real estate agent provides services “for a fee”; here, however, the employee agent was not acting for a fee)
Discrimination/Retaliation*Henson v. Amerigas Propane, Inc. (10th Cir., March 10, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Amerigas: Henson failed to show Amerigas’s stated reasons for firing him were pretexts for unlawfuldiscrimination and retaliation)ERISA and Employee Pension PlansSEC v. DeYoung (10th Cir., March 9, 2017) (affirming district court approval of a settlement including a bar to […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Washington v. Unified Government of Wyandotte County (10th Cir., February 6, 2017) (affirming summary judgement in favor of the County because the County’s random drug test violated neither the Fourth Amendment nor any other constitutional or statutory right) Public Employees/Employers Welty v. Retirement Board (Utah Ct. App., February 9, 2017) (declining to […]
WagesSharp v. CGG Land (U.S.), Inc. (10th Cir., November 4, 2016) (affirming exclusion of meal allowance from time-and-a-half overtime calculation)Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and DiseasePetersen v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App., November 3, 2016) (affirming commission determination that surgeries were unnecessary and thus incompensable)*Paulsen v. Colvin (10th Cir., November 1, 2016) (affirming denial of disability benefits […]
Unemployment AppealsMigenes v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., June 23, 2016) (affirming determination of fraud in overpayment of benefits)WagesEncino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro et al. (U.S., June 20, 2016) (vacating Ninth Circuit decision that overtime payment exemption does not apply to service advisers. The Department of Labor failed to provide a reasoned explanation […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination *Kontgis v. Salt Lake City Corporation (10th Cir., April 18, 2016) (affirming summary judgment in favor of SLC Corp. on Kontgis’s wrongful termination claim because she had had the due process for which the law provided) Discrimination and Retaliation Walton v. Powell (10th Cir., April 19,2016) (affirming district court because firing a civil service […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful TerminationClearOne, Inc., v. Revolabs, Inc. (Utah, April 1, 2016) (Revolabs lacked sufficient contact with Utah for ClearOne to bring suit in Utah for predatory hiring, contractual interference, and abetting breach of fiduciary duty)Labor Unions*Ortega v. New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc. (10th Cir., March 29, 2016) (affirming dismissal of breach-of-contract claim for failure to […]
