CONTRACT ~ NONCOMPETE ~ TRADE SECRET ~ WRONGFUL TERMINATION *Wilson v. IC Bus (10th Cir., April 19, 2022) (affirming summary judgment in favor of IC Bus: Wilson could show no error in the trial court’s determination that Wilson was fired for violations of its sexual harassment policy and failure to report others’ violations; his motions […]
Workers’ Compensation ~ Occupational Safety and Disease *Mares v. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (10th Cir., December 7, 2021) (affirming summary judgment for the CCH on Mares’s claim that she was fired in violation of the ADA: Mares did have approval for intermittent FMLA leave, but she she was still required to give CCH notice, […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation Adams v. C3 Pipeline Construction, Inc., et al. (10th Cir., November 2, 2021) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the Plains defendants (successors to a company with whom C3 was under contract) on Adams’s Title VII sexual-harassment claim: Plains did not employ Adams or any other C3 employee and therefore could not […]
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discrimination, and retaliation claims, settled in her personal bankruptcy action) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
Contract / Noncompetition C.R. England v. Swift Transportation Company (Utah, February 27, 2019) (to prove intentional interference with an employment contract by improper means, based on violation of an established industry standard, the plaintiff must provide evidence of an objective, industry-wide standard) Discrimination / Retaliation *Davis v. BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (10th […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination*Pliuskaitis v. USA Swimming (10th Cir., January 2, 2018) (affirming dismissal of Pliuskaitis’s damages claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction: he failed to challenge the arbitrator’s denial of damages)Discrimination/Retaliation*Black v. Larimer (10th Cir., January 3, 2018) (affirming dismissal for Black’s failure to prosecute her sexual harassment claim)ERISAVan Steen v. Life Insurance Company […]
Discrimination/Retaliation*Gale v. Uintah County (10th Cir., December 15, 2017) (remanding for reevaluation of the limitations placed on testimony by the trial court: its unanalyzed evidence exclusion and unexplained change from denial to grant of motion constituted abuses of discretion) *Garcia v. Recondo Technologies (10th Cir., December 14, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Recondo on Garcia’s […]
Discrimination/Retaliation *Brown v. LaFerry’s LP Gas Co., Inc. (10th Cir., September 19, 2017) (affirming dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of Brown’s racial discrimination and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: his coworkers refusal to speak to him did not, in the court’s opinion, create a hostile work environment or […]
Discrimination/Retaliation Jones v. Needham (10th Cir., May 12, 2017) (reversing dismissal of sexual harassment claims, but affirming dismissal of common-law and Oklahoma Anti-Discrimination Act claims) ERISA *Blair v. Alcatel-Lucent Long Term Disability Plan (10th Cir., May 9, 2017) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Alcatel-Lucent because there had been no abuse of discretion in the […]
Discrimination/RetaliationHansen v. Skywest Airlines (10th Cir., Dec. 21, 2016) (reversing summary judgement against Hansen on his sexual harassment, retaliation, and emotional distress claims, but affirming on his disparate treatment claim)Split Rail Fence Company, Inc. v. United States of America (10th Cir., Dec. 20, 2016) (denying Split Rail’s petition for review of ALJ decision penalizing it […]
