Spakes v. Broward County Sheriff's Office

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that district court’s failure to give jury instructions on an employer’s defense in an FMLA case was hamless where the jury specifically rejected that defense in a special verdict form
• holding a court’s erroneous jury instruction harmless because the jury’s conduct reflected a correct application of the law
• noting that Eleventh Circuit law “make[s] clear that a causal nexus is not an element of an interference claim”
• “An employer can deny the right to reinstatement ... if it can demonstrate that it would have discharged the employee had he not been on FMLA leave.”
• “Our cases make clear that a causal nexus is not an element of an interference claim, but that the employer can raise the lack of causation as an affirmative defense.”
• Our cases make clear that a causal nexus is not an element of an interference claim, but that the employer can raise the lack of causation as an affirmative defense.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).