Buser v. Southern Food Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the exclusivity provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act did not bar claims of IIED and NIED against the employer and the employer’s vice president based on alleged violations of the Family Medical Leave Act
• noting that the majority view is that supervisors and managers may be held individually liable, and providing citations
• explaining that the public policy exception to the employment at-will doctrine is a narrow one
• declining to hold that violation of the FMLA rises to the level of a state public policy
• refusing to consider arguments made for the first time in a reply brief
• termination of employee who refused to return to work from leave under Family and Medical Leave Act not “extreme and outrageous” conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).