Tracy Walker v. Trinity Marine Products

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming dismissal of this claim because “if forced leave can amount to interference with a right provided under the FMLA, it can do so only if the employer’s action prevents the employee from using benefits to which she is entitled under the Act”
• “This court has not addressed whether placing an employee involuntarily on FMLA leave is a form of interference made actionable by the statute.”
• plaintiff invoking equitable estoppel must show she has changed position to her detriment in reasonable reliance on another’s misleading representation
• “Though some federal statutes permit an employee who is ‘regarded as’ impaired by her employer to sue, see 42 U.S.C. § 12102, the FMLA makes no provision for claims based on an employer’s perception of its employee's health.”
• “In our view, if forced leave can amount to interference with a right provided under the FMLA, it can do so only if the employer's action prevents the employee from using benefits to which she is entitled under the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).