Cases — March 20th through 26th, 2022

Wages Butler v. Mediaport Entertainment, Inc. (Utah Ct. App., March 24, 2022) (affirming summary judgment dismissing Butler’s counterclaims against his former employer in their litigation over the validity of an employment agreement: Butler failed to show sufficient evidence of damages) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law […]

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Cases — August 2nd through 8th, 2020

Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Robinson v. Barrett (10th Cir., August 7, 2020) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Barrett, the secretary of the Air Force, on Robinson’s retaliation claim: she failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the reasons for the Air Force’s actions were pretextual) *Cejka v. Vectrus Systems Corporation […]

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Cases — June 14th through 20th, 2020

Discrimination~Retaliation Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia (U.S., June 15, 2020) (reversing 11th Circuit decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not prohibit the termination of employees for being gay: In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee’s sex when deciding to fire […]

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Cases — September 17th through 23rd (2017)

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 […]

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Cases—January 29th through February 4th

Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease*Covington v. Colvin (10th Cir., February 2, 2017) (affirming denial of disability insurance and supplemental security benefits: Covington failed to show she was disabled)*Rael v. Berryhill (10th Cir., February 3, 2017) (affirming denial of disability because substantial evidence supported theALJ’s decision, and there was no legal error)Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination*Branham v. Delta […]

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Cases — January 22nd through 28th

Discrimination/Retaliation *Johnson v. Oklahoma Department of Transportation (10th Cir., January 27, 2017) (affirming denial of 60(b) motion for relief from judgement, the purpose of which is not to relitigate the underlying case) *Cvancara v. Reams (10th Cir., January 23, 2017) (affirming summary judgment on Cvancara’s first-amendment retaliation claim, because she was merely airing personal grievances)  Public Employers/Employees […]

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Cases — August 7th through 13th

Discrimination/RetaliationBird v. West Valley City (10th Cir., August 8, 2016) (affirming summary judgment in favor of West Valley on Bird’s gender-discrimination and hostile-work-environment claims; but reversing on Bird’s claim of First-Amendment retaliation claim) *Ridgell-Boltz v. Colvin (10th Cir., August 10, 2016) (affirming denial of attorneys’ fees, but reversing the district court’s order dismissing Ridgell-Boltz’s hostile-work-environment […]

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Cases — January 24th through 30th

Discrimination/Retaliation*Montoya v. Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Inc. (10th Cir., January 25, 2016) (affirming summary judgement in favor of defendant because Montoya failed to show pretext for either her discrimination claim or herretaliation claim)*Mancell v. McHugh, Secretary of the Army (10th Cir., January 25, 2016) (affirming summary judgement in favor of defendant on Mancell’s discrimination and retaliation […]

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Cases — September 20th through 26th

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 […]

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