DEFRANCO v. STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORP.

No. 08-1095.

622 F.3d 1296 (2010)

Thom DEFRANCO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION; StorageTek International Services Corporation; Sun Microsystems, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Olsen of Olsen & Brown, L.L.C., Niwot, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Daniel E. Friesen of Hale Friesen, LLP, Denver, CO ( Shannon M. Henderson , Peter J. Krumholz with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MURPHY, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Thom DeFranco was an employee of Defendant-Appellee Storage Technology Corporation ("StorageTek") in Colorado when he agreed to accept an overseas assignment in 2004. Before accepting the two-year job overseas, however, he received verbal assurances from three different StorageTek employees that he would have a "permanent job" when he returned from his work in the United Kingdom. After receiving those assurances, he signed...

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