Heather Chandler, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Specialty Tires of America (Tennessee), Inc., Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant

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• noting that while factual scenarios often encompass the FMLA and ADA simultaneously, “the legal entitlements that flow from these facts will differ”
• recognizing The issue of whether the FMLA imposes individual that the provisions of the FMLA generally mirror those liability turns on an interpretation of the term “employer.” Of provided in the FLSA
• finding a prima facie case in part upon evidence of proximity in time between an employee’s request for leave and her termination
• affirming the denial of the employer’s motion for judgment as a matter of law on an FMLA claim in part because the employer “had ample opportunity to support is position that [the employee] was fired for taking a drug overdose, and not for taking [FMLA] leave”
• “With exceptions not at issue here, an employer is obliged to restore the employee to her prior position or an equivalent position upon return from leave.”
• “[E]mployers are prohibited from interfering, restraining, or denying the exercise of or attempted exercise of any FMLA right. [] § 2615(a)(1

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