Geromanos v. Columbia University

How courts have described this case

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

• stating “FMLA is not a shield” for employees who are otherwise subject to “legitimate disciplinary action” that is “unrelated to their FMLA leave”
• “[T]he right to notice under the [FMLA] is not an independent right giving rise to suit where failure to notify in no way affected the employee’s leave.”
• FMLA “limitation [regarding subsequent recertifications] prevents employers from requiring plaintiffs to repeatedly prove that they do in fact suffer from a serious health condition entitling them to leave.”
• “The law is clear that an employee may be terminated while on medical leave, as long as the taking of the FMLA leave was not the cause for the termination.”
• “Because plaintiff received the full twelve weeks of leave as allowed by the act, the only other right with which Columbia could be found to have interfered is the right to reinstatement at the end of her leave.”
• Employer placed employee on FMLA leave for alcohol addiction rehabilitation after her supervisor observed that she was \slumped over in her chair in what appeared to be a state of semi-consciousness\ and \escorted her to the emergency room at New York Presbyterian Hospital\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).