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· 3/26/2008

Grace v. USCAR

Citations

  • 521 F.3d 655
  • 13 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 815
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 6192
  • 105 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1342
  • 2008 WL 782470

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an employee’s request for FMLA leave is “sufficient to trigger potential liability for both [joint employers]”
  • concluding that plaintiff failed to state prima facie case of hostile work environment even though colleague referred to plaintiff as “dancing girl” or “call girl” and commented on plaintiff’s appearance
  • holding employee was FMLA eligible in part because eight factor analysis weighed in her favor
  • noting that the FMLA regulations require courts to consider these factors when determining whether an employer constitutes a successor in interest
  • holding “occasional comments, which may have been ‘offensive utterances,’ do not rise to the level required by the Supreme Court's definition of a hostile work environment”
  • “However, Kieffer has offered no evidence that one business exerted control of the labor relations of the other.”

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Judges: Merritt, Gilman, Cook

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