Rodriguez v. Smithfield Packing Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that no relief is available if the “violation caused no harm”
• stating that no relief is available if the “violation caused no harm”
• explaining that although an employee does not need to explicitly state that she seeks to take FMLA leave, mere notice that the employee is sick without details about the nature of the illness is insufficient to indicate to the employer that FMLA leave is necessary
• “An employee must give[] some level of detail regarding the nature of the illness and the likely duration of the absence.”
• employee must provide “some level of detail regarding the nature of the illness and the likely duration of the absence such that the employer is able to reasonably conclude that the absence may qualify as FMLA leave”
• “[A]n employee must give[ ] some level of detail regarding the nature of the illness and the likely duration of the absence such that the employer is able to reasonably conclude that the absence may qualify as FMLA leave.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).