Contract ~ Noncompete ~ Trade Secret ~ Wrongful Termination
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (U.S., June 27, 2022) (reversing summary judgment in favor of the school district on Kennedy’s first-amendment religious-freedom claim: the free-exercise and free-speech clauses of the first amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance (prayer)
from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits suppression of such religious expression)
Wages
*The Integrated Associates of Denver, Inc. v. Pope (10th Cir., July 1, 2022) (affirming denial of petition to vacate arbitration award in favor of Pope on his Colorado Wage Act claim)
Workers Compensation ~ Occupational Safety and Disease
JBS Carriers v. Utah Labor Commission (Utah, June 30, 2022) (reversing determination that Petitioner Hickey’s long-haul truck drive was not unusual activity sufficient to show legal causation of his deep-vein thrombosis beyond his super obesity: At a general level, Hickey was required to drive to California for work; it does not matter whether JBS required him to drive for an extended period of time without breaks or to keep his left leg still)
*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
