Contract~Noncompete~Trade Secrets~Wrongful Termination
*Parmenter v. City of Nowata (10th Cir., August 19, 2022) (reversing summary judgment in favor of Nowata on Parmenter’s claim that the city denied him procedural due process, and remanding for determination as to whether Parmenter had a protected interest in his position and, if so, whether he
received appropriate process)
*LS3, Inc. v. Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, LLC (10th Cir., August 17, 2022) (affirming dismissal of LS3’s trade-secrets claim but reversing dismissal of its claims for intentional interference with contract: on the former claim, LS3 failed to allege what trade secrets the Cherokee defendants had misappropriated)
Discrimination~Retaliation
*Rodriguez v. Arapahoe County Sheriff (10th Cir., August 18, 2022) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the Sheriff on Rodriguez’s discrimination and retaliation claims: Rodriguez failed to present evidence from which a reasonable jury could find discrimination or retaliation based on her discrimination complaints)
*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
