Discriminationm~ Retaliation
*Wu v. Haaland (10th Cir., July 8, 2021) (affirming denial of 60(b) motion to reconsider and to set aside settlement agreement as to her discrimination, retaliation, and negligence claims: aside from the various jurisdictional issues, Wu offered no valid reason to set aside the settlement agreement she had agreed to three-and-a-half years earlier)
Unemployment Appeals
Arnold v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah, July 9, 2021) (reversing appellate court determination that Arnold, temporarily laid off to care for his wife after major surgery, did not need to indicate on his unemployment application that he was available to accept full-time work: the Supreme Court declared that requiring “a claimant who had obtained a worksearch deferral to nevertheless be able and available to accept fulltime employment” did not, as the Court of Appeals had held, “work[] an absurd result”)
Workers’ Compensation ~ Occupational Safety and Disease
*Zhu v. Commissioner (10th Cir., July 6, 2021) (affirming denial of disability benefits: substantial evidence supported the ALJ’s determination that Zhu was not disabled, her condition did not meet or medically equal any impairment set forth in the 20 CFR Listings)
*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
