Legal Opinion
Rice v. Sunrise Express, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided November 13, 2002No. 2:96-cv-00447PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
WILLIAM C. LEE, Chief Judge.
Two separate juries have concluded that Plaintiff, Sandra Rice, was laid off from her employer, Sunrise Express, in viola tion of the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”). To get to this point, this action, which should have been a run-of-the-mill employment dispute, has taken over six years and in excess of 250 docket entries to resolve. The case was initially tried to a jury (who found in Plaintiffs favor), appealed to the Seventh Circuit 1 (who reversed the outcome of the first trial based upon an erroneous jury instruction),…
2Cases cited50 opinions
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- White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment SecuritySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- City of Riverside v. RiveraSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
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