Simpson v. Office of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court

How courts have described this case

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

• “Firing an employee to prevent her from exercising her right to return to her prior position can certainly interfere with that employee’s FMLA rights.”
• affirming summary judgment for defendants on FMLA interference claim where plaintiff “offers hardly any evidence linking' her termination to her leave-taking”
• “Firing an employee to prevent her from exercising her right to return to her prior position can certainly interfere with that em- ployee’s FMLA rights.”
• “Firing an employee to prevent her from exercising her” FMLA rights “can certainly interfere with that employee’s FMLA rights.”
• noting the interchangeability of FMLA leave with other forms of leave: “Though Simpson 14 was not on ‘FMLA leave’ when she was fired, she was on accrued paid sick leave, which an employee may substitute for the leave guaranteed under the FMLA.”
• “Arguments raised for the first time in a reply brief are waived.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).