Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Adams v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 15, 2015)(affirming finding of no disability) *Gabriel v. Colorado Mountain Medical, P.C. (10th Cir.,October 13, 2015) (affirming summary judgment against Gabriel on her Family Medical Leave Act claim) *Cases marked with an asterisk are cases the 10th Circuit does not consider binding precedent except […]
Discrimination and Retaliation *Brown v. Lowe’s Home Centers (10th Cir.,October 8, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Lowe’s on Brown’s racial discrimination claims: disparate treatment, retaliation, and hostile work environment) *Housley v. Spirit Aerosystems, Inc. (10th Cir.,October 9, 2015) (affirming trial court on Housley’s age discrimination (ADEA)claim) *Cases marked with an asterisk are cases […]
Discrimination and Retaliation *Schlecht v. Lockheed Martin Corporation (10th Cir., September 28, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Lockheed on Schlecht’s disability discrimination claim) Unemployment Gray v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., October1, 2015) (declining to disturb board determination that Gray quit his positionwithout good cause, making him ineligible for unemployment benefits) Workers Compensation/Occupational […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Trujillo v. Colvin (10th Cir.,September 24, 2015) (reversing district court affirmation of the ALJ’s denialof social security benefits to Trujillo) Flowell Electric Association, Inc., v. RhodesPump, LLC (Utah S.Ct., September 25, 2015) (reversing grant of summary judgement based onthe presence of unresolved factual issues) Discrimination and Retaliation *Ingila v. Dish Network […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Ray v. Wal-Mart Stores (Utah S.Ct., September 17, 2015) (answering question certified by the federal district court in the affirmative: “We conclude that the policy favoring the right of self-defense is a public policy of sufficient clarity and weight to qualify as an exception to the at-will employment doctrine,” limited to situations in […]
Discrimination & Retaliation *Arabalo v. City of Denver (10th Cir., September 9, 2015) (affirming district court’s dismissal of Arabalo’s hostile-work-environment claim for failure to exhaust her administrative remedies and summary judgment in favor of Denver) Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Teufel v. Department of the Army (10th Cir.,September 9, 2015) (dismissing for lack of jurisdiction)*Cases marked with […]
Disability Oliver v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App.,September 3, 2015) (setting aside commission denial of permanent totaldisability benefits as based upon incorrect legal standards and allowing the ALJ’s order to stand) Discrimination & Retaliation Zisumbo v. Ogden Regional Medical Center (10th Cir.,September 4, 2015) (affirming Zisumbo’s retaliation award as set by the courtbelow) Workers’ Compensation Helf v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. (Utah S.Ct.,September 4, […]
Discrimination & Retaliation Osborne v. Baxter Healthcare Corporation (10th Cir.,August 24, 2015) (reversing summary judgement in favor of Baxter Healthcare because there remains a genuine issue of material fact as to Osborne’s ability to perform the work at issue) *Macias v. Southwest Cheese Company, LLC (10th Cir.,August 24, 2015) (reversing summary judgement for Southwest Cheese […]
Unemployment Unck v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., August 13, 2015)(upholding Board order that Unck repay unemployment benefits and imposing afraud penalty) Discrimination *Grubbs v. The Salvation Army (10th Cir., August 13, 2015) (affirmingsummary judgment in favor of the Salvation Army because Grubbs failed to show adiscriminatory pretext) Miscellaneous—Procedure *Martinv. Mt. St. Mary’s […]
Disability *Cochranv. Colvin (10th Cir., August 3, 2015) (affirming denial ofdisability insurance benefits) Workers Compensation Martinezv. Angel Exploration, LLC (10th Cir., August 4, 2015)(affirming summary judgment as to employer’s intentional tort liability) Discrimination and Retaliation Pang v.International Document Services (Utah, August 5, 2015) (affirmingdismissal: Utah Rule of Professional Conduct 1.13(b) does not reflect a clearand […]
