Bond v. Abbott Laboratories

How courts have described this case

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• determining that whether an illness qualifies as a “serious health condition” for purposes of the FMLA is a legal question that a plaintiff may not avoid simply by alleging it to be so
• finding plaintiffs tendinitis not to be a serious medical condition under FMLA based upon lack of incapacity
• doctor’s advice that plaintiff perform light duty fell short of establishing she was incapacitated and suffering from a “serious health condition”
• “Generally then, a health care provider must instruct, recommend, or at least authorize an employee not to work ... for that employee to be considered incapacitated ... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).