United States Tenth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's respondeat superior suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is reversed where the district court improperly decided that it had no jurisdiction over the suit on grounds that Colorado workers' compensation law provided plaintiff's exclusive remedy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2004
• Published 09/23/2004

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, McKAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas L. Roberts (Bradley A. Levin, Daniel W. Patterson, and Michael J. Rosenberg with him on the briefs), Roberts Levin & Patterson, P.C., Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., James M. Wagstaffe and Ivo LaBar, Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Diane Vaksdal Smith (Peter W. Burg and David K. TeSelle with her on the brief) Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C., Englewood, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.