Bowling v. Clarke

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding an employer was on sufficient notice that it was required to inquire further after an employee requested to take leave to care for her son
• “chilling an employee's ability to exercise her statutory rights goes to the very heart of conduct that § 2615(a)(1) seeks to redress.”
• “Without protection, employees would be discouraged from taking authorized initial steps—including preparing or formulating a request—to access FMLA benefits.”
• “Logically, an adverse employment action in response to the exercise of (or the attempt to exercise
• “Suppose that an employee, intending to exercise her FMLA rights, meets with her employer and asks questions concerning her FMLA rights, then is fired for doing so.”
• “Thus, the scope of protected activity under the FMLA starts with the first step contemplated under the Act’s procedures: a request made to the employer. That request, moreover, need not lead to entitlement in order to be protected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).