Oswalt v. Sara Lee Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that high blood pressure, alone, without any evidence that it substantially affects one or more major life activities, is insufficient to bring an employee within the protection of the Federal Act
• addressing whether a hypertensive disability was “substantially limiting,” but not doubting that it could generally qualify as an impairment
• “The FMLA is not a shield to protect employees from legitimate disciplinary action by their employers if then-performance is lacking in some manner unrelated to their FMLA leave.”
• plaintiff failed to present evidence that high blood pressure limited any major life activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).