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) […]

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Cases — September 13th through 19th

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 […]

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Cases — September 6th through 12th

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 […]

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