United States Tenth Circuit

Under Okla. Stat. tit. 85, s 5, an employer is not shielded from liability for terminating an employee who at the time of discharge is unable physically to perform her assigned duties if at the time of termination that employee is on temporary total disability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2001
• Published 11/28/2001

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, ANDERSON, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeff Nix, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jon E. Brightmire and Kristen L. Brightmire of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., Tulsa, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.