Legal Opinion
Graham v. State Farm Mutual Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 28, 1999No. 98-6871PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Per curiam
The Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654 (FMLA), ensures that employees may take up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave due to, among other things, serious medical conditions. 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D). As the district court reasoned, a plaintiff suffers no FMLA injury when she receives all the leave she requests, and indeed is paid for most of it. Nor does she have a claim for retaliation based on a supervisor’s memorandum warning the employee against future non-FMLA absences.
Accordingly, the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Defendants is affirmed based upon the…
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