Smith v. Diffee Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial judge impermissibly ‘disregarded the jury’s implicit finding[s]’ when the judge denied the wrongfully discharged plaintiff equitable relief of front pay for reasons inconsistent with the jury’s findings
• “If an employer interferes with the FMLA-created right to medical leave or to reinstatement following the leave, a deprivation of this right is a violation regardless of the employer’s intent.”
• “Because [the employee] had requested and taken no more leave than the FMLA already required that she be given, we cannot conclude that the length of time was unreasonable.”

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