Nelson v. United Technologies

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employee fired during leave under the California Family Rights Act “has the burden of proving the proffered justification was a pretext for discrimination’’
• retaliation for taking medical leave can form basis of a wrongful discharge claim
• “To say that [defendant] provided [plaintiff] with more benefits than the CFRA required while simultaneously intending to fire him for exercising his CFRA rights requires a leap we are not prepared to take.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).