Dotson v. Pfizer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer’s interference with even one day of FMLA leave is sufficient to entitle a plaintiff to damages
• holding that an employer’s “own failure to determine whether leave should be designated as FMLA-protected” may not shield the employer from liability because the court “decline[d] to allow an employer to take advantage of its own lapse in such a way”
• affirming district court’s denial of fifteen-year front pay award based on, among other factors, the plaintiff’s “relatively young age when terminated”
• affirming district court's denial of fifteen-year front pay award based on, among other factors, the plaintiff's \relatively young age when terminated\
• finding that an employee informing his employer that he was adopting a child and speaking to a human resources representative about \taking leave during the adoption process\ was sufficient to create a question of fact as to whether the employer's FMLA-inquiry duties had been triggered
• finding that an employee informing his employer that he was adopting a 31 child and speaking to a human resources representative about “taking leave during the adoption process” was sufficient to create a question of fact as to whether the employer’s FMLA-inquiry duties had been triggered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).