Minard v. ITC Deltacom Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that requirement that plaintiff had been “eligible employee” “is a substantive ingredient of a plaintiff's claim for relief, not a jurisdictional limitation”
• holding that a fact issue existed as to whether the plaintiff was harmed by undergoing a (potentially elective) surgery after she was informed she had FMLA leave
• concluding post- Arbaugh that the FMLA’s definition of eligible employee “is a substantive ingredient of a plaintiffs claim for relief, not a jurisdictional limitation”
• holding that FMLA definitions section is nonjurisdictional
• finding a factual issue material to determining whether the plaintiff detrimentally relied on the defendant’s representation when the defendant terminated the plaintiff on the day she returned from leave
• reversing district court dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction when basis for dismissal related to element of plaintiffs statutory claim, “not a limit upon the federal- court’s subject-matter jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).