Pulczinski v. Trinity Structural Towers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that ADA makes it unlawful to deny equal jobs or benefits to qualified employee because of known disability of individual with whom qualified employee is known to have relationship
• finding that the plaintiff had presented insufficient evidence to show that proffered explanations for adverse actions were a pretext for FMLA discrimination
• explaining that if an employer “honestly believed the nondiscriminatory reason [it] gave for the action, pretext does not exist” (citation omitted)
• stating that a court must refuse to consider claims not alleged in the complaint
• rejecting the Sixth Circuit’s modified version of the honest belief rule as inconsistent with the statute
• reaffirming “honest belief rule” that an explanation that turns out to be wrong supports a finding of discrimination only if “the employer did not truly believe” it

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