Theresa Spangler v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the employee’s statement “depression again” was sufficient notice where she had “informed several supervisors of her illness” during her period of employment
• finding adequate notice where employer was already aware of employee’s condition and employee specifically referred to the condition
• finding employee had given adequate notice that she might be entitled to FMLA leave when she stated she would be absent from work because of her “depression again” when previously she had missed work because of that condition
• “A jury could consider the difficulty one suffering from depression has with communications . . . .”
• \A jury could consider the difficulty one suffering from depression has with communications ....\
• “A jury could consider the difficulty one suffering from depression has with communications ... in objectively evaluating whether the [employer] was on notice of her need for FMLA leave.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).