Sparks v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing an FMLA interference claim where, among other things, “the record shows that [the employer] was considering taking disciplinary action . . . before he even called in sick”
• “[I]t is well-settled that an employer is not liable for ‘interfering’ with an employee’s leave when the employee would have been terminated regardless of the leave.”
• “Temporal proximity can be sufficient to create an inference of retaliatory intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).