July 11, 2023
The Tenth Circuit won't revive a medical executive assistant's suit claiming a rehabilitation hospital told her to quit or be fired after she reported sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the hospital had concerns about her performance prior to her report.
December 12, 2022
A significant swath of amicus briefs the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fired off in 2022 argued that trial courts are bucking 16-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent on retaliation cases, friction that experts say is driven by ambiguity in the justices' ruling.
November 15, 2022
A medical executive assistant's claim that she was fired for reporting sexual harassment should not have been dismissed, a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawyer told a Tenth Circuit panel Tuesday, prompting one judge to say it was "pretty clear" the lower court erred.
October 28, 2022
In November, the Fifth Circuit will weigh whether alcoholism is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Tenth Circuit will mull the threshold for bringing a retaliation case. Here, Law360 previews arguments in these and other cases that lawyers should keep an eye out for in the coming month.
May 05, 2022
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Tenth Circuit to reconsider a lower court's determination that a nursing assistant couldn't show she'd been retaliated against when her employer told her to quit or be fired after reporting sexual harassment, arguing the trial court erred.