Walker v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that nominal damages are not available to plaintiffs under the FMLA
• providing that leave to supplement pleadings “should be liberally granted unless good reason exists for denying leave, such as prejudice to the defendants” (quotations and citation omitted)
• explaining that recovery under the FMLA is unambiguously limited to actual monetary losses
• finding that a dismissal of an untimely filed claim without prejudice was, “in real world terms,” a dismissal with prejudice because “any attempt by [the plaintiff] to refile her claims . . . would be out of time”
• finding that a dismissal of an untimely filed claim without prejudice was, “in real world terms,” a dismissal with prejudice because “any attempt by [the plaintiff] to refile her claims . . . would be out of time”
• treating district court’s dismissal as “with prejudice” because any attempt by the plaintiff to refile her claims after dismissal would be out of time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).