2 April 2018

United States Supreme Court holds auto dealership service advisors are exempt form overtime pay requirements and summarily reverses denial of qualified immunity motion.

by William Gaskill

14 March 2018

10th Circuit rejects challenge to rules concerning marketing of annuities; affirms contempt finding in child labor case; and holds Oklahoma’s forcible sodomy statue is not a violent felony for career criminal sentencing purposes.

by William Gaskill

6 July 2017

10th Circuit holds grand jury witnesses incarcerated for charges different than those before the grand jury are not entitled to Miranda warnings; rejects tip based wage claim; finds no plain error in possible allocution violation; and rejects due process challenge to revoking a suspended sentence based on acts done while incarcerated.

by William Gaskill

21 April 2016

10th Circuit holds intrastate delivery of items form warehouse to brewery was last leg of interstate trip and thus overtime claim by truck drivers fails.

by William Gaskill

31 March 2016

10th Circuit affirms rejection of Fair Labor Standards Act claim in donning and doffing case and holds federal drug trafficking convictions trigger drug trafficking enhancement in unlawful reentry cases.

by William Gaskill

21 January 2016

10th Circuit holds state and federal drug agents lack authority to grant immunity from prosecution; affirms a felon in possession conviction; holds failing to raise personal jurisdiction defense in motions to dismiss or answer waives the defense; reversed summary judgment in insurance claim case; upholds rule of no reduction in back pay for increased wages in second job in labor case; finds pa down before consent search of car justified; affirms deportation order; and remands speedy trial case for additional analysis of whether case should be dismissed with prejudice.

by William Gaskill

9 March 2015

10th Circuit defers to agency interpretation and rejects overtime claim for one time improper deduction of manager salary.

by William Gaskill

9 December 2014

United States Supreme Court issues decisions about juror voir dire misconduct evidence and whether security screenings are compensable work.

by William Gaskill