Cases — June 20th through 26th, 2021

Discrimination~Retaliation

*Alabi v. Vilsack (10th Cir., June 21, 2021) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the USDA on Alabi’s claims of retaliation, hostile work environment, and discrimination: Alabi failed to exhaust his administrative remedies on most of his claims, there was no evidence of material disadvantage from the USDA’s letter of warning, and the minor discrimination from certain coworkers was not sufficiently pervasive to establish a hostile work environment)

*Ombe v. Cook (10th Cir., June 24, 2021) (affirmimg sua sponte dismissal of Ombe’s claims for employment discrimination: Ombe filed his claims after the three-year statute of limitations had run out)

Labor Unions

Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (U.S., June 23, 2021) (reversing the 9th Circuit’s affirming the district court’s determination that California regulation allowing union organizers access to growers’ land was not an per se taking: since the access regulation grants labor organizations a right to invade the growers’ property, it constitutes a
per se physical taking)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.