Ellen Schaaf v. SmithKline Beecham Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a deficient employee cannot protect herself from an adverse employment action by preemptively seeking FMLA leave right before being fired
• reasoning that employer’s decision to fire plaintiff after first proposing reinstatement was not a sign of pretext because plaintiffs poor performance motivated both decisions
• explaining that, for an employer to be held liable for FMLA interference, the request for leave must have been the proximate cause of the termination
• stating that an FMLA plaintiff “made a prima facie showing of an FMLA interference claim, in that she demonstrated she was not reinstated” to her former position
• explaining that, for an employer to be held liable for FMLA interference, the plaintiff’s exercise of her FMLA rights must have been the proximate cause of the interference
• permitting plaintiff to proceed pseudonymously despite the plaintiff's failure to 5 file a motion which would have allowed defendant to object on the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).