Discrimination~Retaliation Fresquez v. BNSF Railway Co. (10th Cir., November 10, 2022) (affirming judgment and jury award in favor of Fresquez on his retaliation claims against BNSF, which fired Fresquez because of his refusal to conceal safety defects on the tracks he was employed to inspect: Fresquez’s actions were expressly protected under the Federal Railroad Safety […]
DISCRIMINATION ~ RETALIATION *Glapion-Pressley v. City and County of Denver (10th Cir., April 14, 2022) (Glapion-Pressley failed to show error in the dismissal of her claims for failure to satisfy Title VII’s verification requirement before the EEOC) MISCELLANEOUS *Hurst v. McDonough (10th Cir., April 12, 2022) (affirming summary judgment in favor of McDonough on Hurst’s […]
CONTRACT ~ NONCOMPETE ~ TRADE SECRET ~ WRONGFUL TERMINATION *Booth v. Home Depot (10th Cir., April 5, 2022) (affirming dismissal of Booth’s complaint for wrongful termination pursuant to Burk v. KMart Corp., 770 P.2d 24 (Okla. 1989), a court-created cause of action to redress a termination in violation of “a clear mandate of public policy”: […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Roark-Whitten Hospitality 2, LP (10th Cir., March 10, 2022) (among other things, reversing compensatory damages award against Roark-Whitten on the EEOC’s claims against it for unlawful employment practices: the district court failed to explain why it ordered compensatory damages in the amount of only $35,000 despite the […]
Miscellaneous Schvaneveldt v. South Davis Metro Fire Service Area (Utah Ct. App., January 6, 2022) (granting South Davis’s motion for summary disposition and dismissing for lack of jurisdiction: astonishingly, no statute in the Utah Code confers jurisdiction on the courts over South Davis’s final decision to terminate Schvaneveldt—a serious gap in Utah statutory law: employees […]
Discrimination~Retaliation *Flores v. City of Farmington (10th Cir., December 13, 2021) (affirming judgment on the pleadings and summary judgment in favor of Farmington on the plaintiffs’ claims of First-Amendment free-speech retaliation and religious discrimination: because the first defendant’s speech was made pursuant to his official duties, it did not enjoy First-Amendment protection; the second defendant’s […]
Miscellaneous Sheppard v. Geneva Rock (Utah, July 15, 2021) (reversing the district court’s grant of Geneva Rock‘s motion in limine excluding, as irrelevant, all liability evidence, and holding as error the court’s exclusion of Geneva Rock‘s employment practices: that evidence was still relevant after Geneva Rock had admitted liability) Public Emloyers ~ Employees Ramon v. […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Dennis v. Fitzsimons (10th Cir., March 3, 2021) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Fitzsimons on Dennis’s disability discrimination claim: Dennis failed to offer any evidence of a causal connection between his alcoholism and his discharge) Miscellaneous Tanner v. McMurray (10th Cir., March 2, 2021) (reversing summary judgment granting defendants qualified immunity […]
ERISA *Weiss v. Banner Health (10th Cir., February 9, 2021) (affirming denial of her request for pre-authorization of knee surgery: Weiss did not show that Banner’s plan administrator abused its discretion) Miscellaneous *Livingstone v. University of Kansas Hospital Authority (10th Cir., February 11, 2021) (affirming lower court’s disallowing leave to amend response brief: Livingstone sought […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *DeSanzo v. AHS Southcrest Hospital, LLC (10th Cir., January 28, 2021) (affirming summary judgment in favor of AHS on DeSanzo’s age discrimination an retaliation claims: DeSanzo could not establish that AHS’s reason for her termination was pretextual) Miscellaneous *Oldenburg v. American Modern Insurance Company, Inc. (10th Cir., January 26, 2021) (reversing summary […]
