Lewis v. School District 70

How courts have described this case

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• holding that privileged statements cannot be considered in evaluating outrageousness of the defendant’s conduct
• holding that jury could find that employer violated the FMLA if the employer “held [the employee] to the unrealistic expectation that she should accomplish satisfactorily all of the duties of [her] position during her period of FMLA-protected intermittent leave”
• denying summary judgment in FMLA retaliation claim where plaintiff showed job performance unrelated to her absenteeism justi- fied her demotion
• reversing summary judgment because employer expected employee to complete the duties of a full-time bookkeeper while on protected leave, and then fired her for failing to do so
• reversing summary judgment because employer expected employee to complete the duties of a full-time bookkeeper while on protected leave, and then fired her for failing to do so
• “We cannot subject employers to intentional infliction of emotional distress claims each time they decide to discharge an employee—even an employee with severe emotional problems—unless their conduct truly is egregious.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).