Cases — January 10th through 16th
No Cases
Cases — January 3rd through 9th
Discrimination / Retaliation*Lewis v. Twenty-First Century Bean Processing (10th Cir., January 5, 2016) (affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiff’s age- and race-discrimination claims)WagesNesbitt v. FCNH, Inc. (10th Cir., January 5, 2016) (affirming the district court’s order denying defendant FCNH’s motion to stay the proceedings and to compel arbitration)Workers’ Compensation*Lynn v. Colvin (10th Cir., January […]
Cases — December 27th through January 2nd, 2016
Workers’ Compensation Guzman v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App., December 31, 2015) (setting aside Commission appeals Board’s misapplication of Utah Code Annotated section 34A-2-413(1)(c)(ii))
Cases — December 20th through 26th
Workers Compensation *Dutton v. Colvin (10th Cir., December 21, 2015) (reversing denial of Supplemental Security Income benefits because ALJ failed to properly consider treating physician’s opinion) Simmons v. Colvin (10th Cir., December 23, 2015) (affirming denial of disability benefits based on his “impertinent,” “groundless,” and “frivolous”arguments) Discrimination/Retaliation *Amos v. City of Claremore (10th Cir., December […]
Cases — December 13th through 19th
Discrimination/Retaliation *Herndon v. Best Buy Co., Inc. (10th Cir., December 15, 2015) (affirming dismissal of plaintiff’s claim of retaliatory discharge for hiring a former felon) Unemployment Appeals Martin v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., December 17, 2015) (untimely filed appeal dismissed for lack of jurisdiction) Yudin v. Department of Workforce Services (UtahCt. App., […]
Cases — December 6th through 12th
WAGES *Evans v. Loveland Automotive Investments, Inc. (10th Cir., December 10, 2015) (adopting the rule that an award of both a state statutory penalty and FLSA liquidated damages does not constitute a double recovery) DISCRIMINATION/RETALIATION *Winters v, Board of County Commissioners of Muskogee County, Oklahoma (10th Cir., December 10, 2015) (reversing summary judgment in the […]
Cases — November 29th through December 5th
Discrimination / Retaliation *Morman v. Campbell County Memorial Hospital (10th Cir., December 2, 2015) (failure to plead plausible gender-discrimination claim, and defendants are individually entitled to qualified immunity) Labor Unions *International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 627 v. NLRB (10th Cir., December 3, 2015) (affirming NLRB finding that the union violated the National Labor Relations […]
Cases — November 22nd through 28th
Discrimination & Retaliation *Cink v. Grant County, Oklahoma (10th Cir., November 27, 2015) (reversing the district court’s conclusion that the county was not Cink’s employer and therefore not liable under Cink’s age discrimination and disability claims) Miscellaneous *Sanders v. Anoatubby (10th Cir., November 23, 2015) (a hostile-work-environment/wrongful-termination case in the Chickasaw Nation dismissed for lack of jurisdiction) […]
Cases — November 15th through 21st
Unemployment AppealsWhite v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah Ct. App., November 19, 2015) (declining to disturb the decision of the Workforce Services Board denying White unemployment benefits)
Cases — November 8th through 14th
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination *Kreso v. McDonald (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (affirming district court’s refusal to overturn Veteran’s Affairs Disciplinary Appeals Board’s termination of Kreso’s employment) Discrimination & Retaliation *Cory v. City of Basehor (10th Cir.,November 12, 2015) (upholding summary judgment against Cory on his claim that the city terminated him as a police officer in retaliation for exercising his […]