Albert v. Runyon

LASKER,'District judge.

This ease raises .unsettled questions about how the relatively new Family and Medical Leave Act fits into the already crowded intersection formed by the various laws regulating employment relationships— in particular, to what extent, if any, the FMLA supersedes various statutory and regulatory provisions governing an employer’s ability to condition an employee’s return to work following medical leave on a fitness-for-duty examination.

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Deborah Albert has been employed by the United States Postal Service in various capacities for the past seventeen years. She held her…