Roberts v. Roadway Express, Inc.

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• holding that the Supremacy Clause barred Colorado’s workers’ compensation scheme from prohibiting civil rights claims
• noting that “[a]ctions such as . . . terminations are by their nature adverse”
• stating that the plaintiff's \efforts to attribute racial animus to these acts in furtherance of his hostile work environment claim necessarily relate to the establishment of pretext in the retaliation claims\
• noting the appellate court’s inability to review sufficiency-of-the-evidence claims when only a portion of trial transcript was provided
• determining objections to jury instructions could not be considered where appellant failed to provide instructions or complete record of proceedings on which instructions were based
• finding an adverse employment action where the “record indicate[d] that the more warnings an em- ployee received, the more likely he or she was to be terminated”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).