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· 6/11/2009

Larry v. National Rehabilitation Hospital

Citations

  • 973 A.2d 180
  • 2009 D.C. App. LEXIS 178
  • 2009 WL 1616016

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Genuine illness that prevents an employee from coming to work negates the willfulness and deliberateness of her absenteeism, thereby preventing a finding of gross misconduct.”
  • “it stretches any reasonable definition of [the word ‘deliberately'] as used in the regulation to think that a seriously ill person would be expected to show up for [ ] duty”

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Judges: Belson, Terry, Steadman

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