Workers Compensation Jones v. Colvin (10th Cir., May 1, 2015) (affirming denial of social security, disability benefits, and disabled widows benefits based on weight given to the treating physician’s testimony) Public Employees Hollenbach v. Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission (Utah Ct. App., April 30, 2015) (declining to disturb commission’s approval of 60-hour suspension against […]
Defamation Fox-Rivera v. Colorado Department of Public Health (10th Cir., April 23, 2015) (affirming dismissal for plaintiff’s failure to state a claim that his reputation was impugned) Discrimination Chavez-Acosta v. Southwest Cheese Company, LLC (10th Cir., April 20, 2015) (upholding verdict in favor of Southwest Cheese on claims of hostile work environment and sexual harassment) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sweets v. Wyoming Department of Employment (10th Cir., November 3, 2014) (affirming dismissal of civil right action based on workers compensation claim)
In Stampin’ Up, Inc. v. Labor Commission, the Utah Court of Appeals affirmed the Labor Commission’s finding that an employee was entitled to temporary disability benefits after he was fired for distributing pornographic images to other employees. Reasoning that, because there was no evidence that the employee had not intended his acts to get him fired, the […]
On August 19, 2010, the Utah Court of Appeals upheld the Utah Labor Commission Appeals Board’s order affirming a decision permitting a surgery that was required after an employee suffered an industrial injury. In Resort Retainers v. Labor Commission, the Court of Appeals ruled that Labor Commission Appeals Board had not erred when it affirmed the […]
