Sommer v. the Vanguard Group

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an interference claim requires an employee to show that he was not only entitled to FMLA benefits but that he was denied those benefits
• “An interference action is not about discrimination, it is only about whether the employer provided the employee with the entitlements guaranteed by the FMLA.”
• “Because the FMLA is not about discrimination, a McDonnell-Douglas burden- shifting analysis is not required.”
• “An interference action is not about discrimination, it is only about whether the employer provided the employee with the entitlements guaranteed by the FMLA.”
• “Because the FMLA is not about discrimination, a McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting analysis is not required.”
• “Because the FMLA is not about discrimination, a McDonnell–Douglas burden-shifting analysis is not required.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).