Legal Opinion
Donald Parker v. Valerus Compression Services, LP
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 25, 2011No. 01-10-00916-CVPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARVEY BROWN, Justice.
Donald Parker sued his employer Vale-rus Compression Services, LP for wrongful termination and retaliation based on his filing of a workers’ compensation claim, among other grounds. Valerus denied Parker’s allegations and asserted that it terminated him in accordance with its absentee policy after he spent eight months on medical leave. Valerus filed traditional and no-evidence motions for summary judgment asserting that Parker failed to meet his prima facie burden to show a causal link between his workers’ compensation claim and Valerus’s actions against him or,…
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