Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Gaines

How courts have described this case

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• granting summary judgement to defendant on a CEPA claim where the defendant “set forth a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for terminating” the plaintiff, which the plaintiff could not rebut
• dismissing an FMLA interference claim and stating, “[a]n employer does not violate the FMLA if it terminates an employee during the twelve weeks of approved leave and the employee would not have been able to return to work at the end of the twelve weeks”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).