Legal Opinion
Bird v. West Valley City
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 8, 2016No. 15-4024PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
In 2011, city officials of West Valley City, Utah, terminated Plaintiff Karen Bird from her position as manager of the city’s Animal Shelter. She now brings various claims under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Utah contract law against West Valley City and Kelly Davis, her immediate supervisor at the Animal Shel--ter. According to Plaintiff, both her termination and Mr. Davis’s behavior during her time at the Animal Shelter were unlawful. The district court, with a magistrate judge presiding by consent of the parties, granted summary judgment to Defendants on all…
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