Cases — February 28th through March 6th, 2021

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 on Tanner’s civil rights claim regarding the death of her baby: Neither historical justifications of special government immunity nor modern policy considerations support the extension of qualified immunity to private medical professionals employed full-time by a multi-state, for-profit corporation to provide medical care in correctional facilities)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.