{"id":7682,"date":"2020-03-24T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:41:51","slug":"u-s-district-court-denies-summary-judgment-brought-by-employer-in-fmla-termination-retaliation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-district-court-denies-summary-judgment-brought-by-employer-in-fmla-termination-retaliation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. District Court Denies Summary Judgment Brought by Employer in FMLA Termination, Retaliation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. District Court judge in Chicago has denied employer Marsh USA\u2019s summary judgment motion on Count V on Juanda Lynn Jordan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/agencies\/whd\/fmla\">Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)<\/a> complaint. The complaint alleged that Marsh USA violated the FMLA\u2019s anti-retaliation provision for exercising her right to medical leave because it honestly (though perhaps mistakenly) believed she had failed to provide appropriate documentation for additional time off when it terminated her employment.<\/p>\n<p>The District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly examined two 7<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals opinions: one where a firing that was based on the employer\u2019s mistaken belief didn\u2019t violate FMLA and another where the mistake didn\u2019t provide a defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn employer may be entitled to summary judgment on a retaliation claim where, based on a mistaken belief, it terminated an employee for reasons unrelated to the employee\u2019s protected activities. Yet an employer is not entitled to summary judgment where it based its motivation for terminating an employee, or at least a key component of it, on a mistaken belief that the employee was ineligible for the FMLA\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-district-court-denies-summary-judgment-brought-by-employer-in-fmla-termination-retaliation-case\/#more-7682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. District Court judge in Chicago has denied employer Marsh USA\u2019s summary judgment motion on Count V on Juanda Lynn Jordan\u2019s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) complaint. The complaint alleged that Marsh USA violated the FMLA\u2019s anti-retaliation provision for exercising her right to medical leave because it honestly (though perhaps mistakenly) believed she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,38],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-federal-law","tag-wrongful-termination-lawsuits"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. District Court Denies Summary Judgment Brought by Employer in FMLA Termination, Retaliation Case &#8212; 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