Legal Opinion
Medley v. Polk Company
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 9, 2001No. 00-1199PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OWEN, District Judge.
In 1999, plaintiff, Vickie R. Medley, had, for two years, been an at-will employee of defendant Polk Company in Denver, Colorado as an assistant to Sheri Paul. When she came to work on the morning of October 2, 1997, there was a phone message from her mother in Nebraska that her father had had a heart attack. Medley informed Paul and said that she was immediately leaving the office to drive to Nebraska, which she did the next day. Some two and a half weeks later, under a set of facts, many of which were undisputed, Polk, acknowledging that her father had had a heart…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Tomas R. Trejo v. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1977
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