Budhun v. Reading Hospital & Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• holding that both formal and constructive termination can constitute adverse employment actions for FMLA retaliation
• holding that plaintiff-employee had suffered an adverse employment action when defendant had replaced her with another employee
• concluding that an employee’s broken finger was “objectively transitory and minor” and that, as a result, the affirmative defense was evident from the face of the plaintiff’s complaint
• concluding that a broken finger that resulted in the loss of the use of three fingers for approximately two months and merely slowed down the plaintiff’s ability to work was transitory and minor
• holding that a broken bone in the hand “is objectively transitory and minor”
• explaining that causation may be shown though “an unusually suggestive temporal proximity between the protected activity and the allegedly retaliatory action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).