Opinion ID: 2633505
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: disparate pay and failure to promote

Text: {23} To prove her claims for disparate pay and failure to promote, Plaintiff needed to demonstrate that Danka paid her less than similarly situated male employees and passed her over for promotions in favor of male employees. Deflon, 1 Fed.Appx. at 817-18. The Tenth Circuit concluded that Plaintiff failed to show that Danka actually paid her less than similarly situated male co-workers, id. at 817, or that Danka denied Plaintiff a promotion. Id. at 818. Both of these causes of action focus on the conduct of Plaintiff's corporate employer, not on the issue of whether Defendants unjustifiably caused Plaintiff to lose the benefits of her employment at Danka. See Ettenson, 2001-NMCA-003, ¶ 14, 130 N.M. 67, 17 P.3d 440. Thus, the Tenth Circuit's rulings on the disparate pay and failure to promote claims did not actually and necessarily decide Plaintiff's present claims.