Cases — June 19th through 25th, 2022

Discrimination ~ Retaliation

*Avant v. Doke (10th Cir., June 23, 2022) (recognizing a First-Amendment right against retaliation for perceived, rather than actual, speech in the context of a claim for retaliatory discharge)

Workers Compensation ~ Occupational Safety and Disease

U.S. v. Washington (U.S., June 21, 2022) (reversing determination that Washington State law was constitutional that made it easier for federal contract workers to establish entitlement to workers compensation: Washington’s law facially discriminated against the federal government and its contractors: federal law did not waive immunity from discriminatory state laws)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.