Discrimination & Retaliation *Cink v. Grant County, Oklahoma (10th Cir., November 27, 2015) (reversing the district court’s conclusion that the county was not Cink’s employer and therefore not liable under Cink’s age discrimination and disability claims) Miscellaneous *Sanders v. Anoatubby (10th Cir., November 23, 2015) (a hostile-work-environment/wrongful-termination case in the Chickasaw Nation dismissed for lack of jurisdiction) […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination *Kreso v. McDonald (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (affirming district court’s refusal to overturn Veteran’s Affairs Disciplinary Appeals Board’s termination of Kreso’s employment) Discrimination & Retaliation *Cory v. City of Basehor (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (upholding summary judgment against Cory on his claim that the city terminated him as a police officer in retaliation for exercising his […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Rivera v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming denial of social security benefits) *Pham v. James (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming dismissal of Pham’s Title VII EEOC claims—workplace harassment based on disability and retaliation—for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies) *Hays v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 22, 2015) (reversing and remanding denial of […]
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 *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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
