Wierman v. Casey's General Stores

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiffs evidence that she was fired within a week of engaging in protected conduct established a causal connection for a prima case of retaliation
• recognizing that the FMLA’s protections apply to an employee who “provides enough information to put the employer on notice that the employee may be in need of FMLA leave” (quotation omitted)
• noting that a prima facie retaliation case “built on temporal proximity[] is undermined where the allegedly retaliatory motive coincides temporally with the non-retaliatory motive”
• stating that a case built on temporal proximity “is undermined where the allegedly retaliatory motive coincides temporally with the non-retaliatory motive”
• stating that a case built on temporal proximity “is undermined where the allegedly retaliatory motive coincides temporally with the non-retaliatory motive’
• concluding employer was on notice of need for FMLA leave based on inquiries made by both pregnant employee and her supervisor about employee’s FMLA rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).