Discrimination~Retaliation *Cox v. Dex Media, Inc. (10th Cir., August 3, 2022) (affirming arbitration award in favor of Cox on her age discrimination in employment claim: the arbitrator did not disregard appropriate law and complied with the arbitration agreement) Cruz v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (10th Cir., August 3, 2022) (reversing summary judgment in favor of Farmers […]
Discrimination~Retaliation *Martin v. Public Service Company of Colorado (10th Cir., July 28, 2022) (affirming judgment in favor of defendant on Martin’s race- and sex-discrimination claims: Martin failed to demonstrate that the trial court abused its discretion in giving the statute-of-limitation instruction to the jury) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under […]
Contract ~ Noncompete ~ Trade Secret ~ Wrongful Termination *Atlas Biologicals, Inc., v. Kutrubes (10th Cir., July 21, 2022) (affirming award in favor of Atlas on its various claims, including misappropriation of trade secrets: the district court did not clearly err in finding liability) Discrimination~Retaliation *Casias v. Raytheon Company (10th Cir., July 20, 2022) (affirming […]
Contract ~ Noncompete ~ Trade Secret ~ Wrongful Termination General Water Technologies, Inc., v. Van Zweden (Utah Ct. App., July 14, 2022) (affirming jury determination that defendants were liable for misappropriation of trade secret design of water-filtration system, but reversing its determination of liability for misappropriation of secret pricing information) Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Drevaleva v. […]
Public Employers ~ Employees Hunt v. Montano (10th Cir., July 6, 2022) (reversing denial of qualified immunity on child-abuse and wrongful death as to employees of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, but reversing and remanding as to two of them to determine whether they had violated clearly established law) *Cases marked with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Cummings v. American Postal Worker’s Union (10th Cir., June 17, 2022) (affirming summary judgment in favor of Union on Cummings’ claims for race and age discrimination: She failed to establish that the USPS had violated the collective bargaining agreement or that it’s reasons for her termination were pretextual) *Pegler v. Doug Smith […]
Discrimination~Retaliation Tucker v. Faith Bible Chapel International (10th Cir., June 7, 2022) (dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, Faith Bible’s interlocutory appeal of Tucker’s claim that he was fired for opposing alleged race discrimination at the school: under the “ministerial exception” defense, anti-discrimination laws do not apply to employment disputes between religious employers and their ministers; […]
Discrimination ~ Retaliation *Gupta v. Oklahoma City Public Schools (10th Cir., May 31, 2022) (affirming summary judgment in favor of the school district on Gupta’s retaliation claim: Gupta failed to demonstrate that the school district’s reasons for its actions were actually pretextual) *Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines […]
