United States Tenth Circuit

A plaintiff in a retaliatory discharge case need not prove that the employer's proffered, nonretaliatory motive for termination was a factual impossibility, but may simply demonstrate that discharge was based on, because of, motivated by, or due to an intent to retaliate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2002
• Published 06/18/2002

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, HOLLOWAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David O. Alegria,McCullough, Wareheim & LaBunker, P.A., Topeka, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel B. Boatright (J. Nick Badgerow, with him on the brief), Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, Overland Park, KS, for Defendant-Appellee.