Melanie Satterfield v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee did not provide adequate notice where employee’s mother informed employer only that employee could not work because of pain but wanted to make up the missed time, and employee made no attempt to update the employer on her status or her pending doctor’s appointment
• discussing adequacy of notice and seriousness of employee’s condition in determining whether employee’s leave request qualified for FMLA protection
• “In determining whether an employee’s leave request qualifies for FMLA protection, the employer must assess whether the request is based on a ‘serious health condition.’”
• delivery of note that employee was “having a lot of pain in her side,” even when coupled with mother’s statement to defendant’s manager that employee was “sick,” found insufficient to convince rational trier of fact that FMLA notice was adequate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).