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 […]
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 […]
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., […]
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) […]
Miscellaneous *Daniels v. Perez (10th Cir., November 5, 2015) (dismissing as moot claims that the Department of Homeland Security has improperly delegated to the Department of Labor its decision-making responsibility as to the grant or denial of H-2B temporary labor certifications)
Discrimination & Retaliation *McElroy v. American Family Insurance (10th Cir., October 30, 2015) (affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant on McElroy’s hostile work environment and retaliation claims) False Claims *Troxler v. Warren Clinic, Inc. (10th Cir.,October 28, 2015) (affirming dismissal of qui tam claim of fraudulent billing under Rule 12(b)(6)) Miscellaneous *Peavy v. Labor Source, LLC (10th Cir., October 27, 2015)(declining […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Rivera v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming denial of social security benefits) *Pham v. James (10th Cir., October 20, 2015)(affirming dismissal of Pham’s Title VII EEOC claims—workplace harassment based on disability and retaliation—for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies) *Hays v. Colvin (10th Cir., October 22, 2015) (reversing and remanding denial of […]
Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety and Disease *Trujillo v. Colvin (10th Cir.,September 24, 2015) (reversing district court affirmation of the ALJ’s denialof social security benefits to Trujillo) Flowell Electric Association, Inc., v. RhodesPump, LLC (Utah S.Ct., September 25, 2015) (reversing grant of summary judgement based onthe presence of unresolved factual issues) Discrimination and Retaliation *Ingila v. Dish Network […]
Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Ray v. Wal-Mart Stores (Utah S.Ct., September 17, 2015) (answering question certified by the federal district court in the affirmative: “We conclude that the policy favoring the right of self-defense is a public policy of sufficient clarity and weight to qualify as an exception to the at-will employment doctrine,” limited to situations in […]
Discrimination & Retaliation *Arabalo v. City of Denver (10th Cir., September 9, 2015) (affirming district court’s dismissal of Arabalo’s hostile-work-environment claim for failure to exhaust her administrative remedies and summary judgment in favor of Denver) Contract/Noncompete/Trade Secret/Wrongful Termination Teufel v. Department of the Army (10th Cir.,September 9, 2015) (dismissing for lack of jurisdiction)*Cases marked with […]
