Legal Opinion
Daryl Scruggs v. Carrier Corporatio
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 3, 2012No. 11-3420PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In 2006, Carrier Corporation set out to remedy an excessive employee absenteeism problem which had developed at its Indianapolis manufacturing plant. As part of its plan, Carrier hired a private investigator to follow approximately thirty-five employees who were suspected of abusing the company’s leave policies. One of these employees was Daryl Scruggs, who was authorized to take intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., to care for his mother in a nursing home. After surveillance revealed that Scruggs never left his…
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