Legal Opinion
Mark Duckworth v. Pratt & Whitney, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 1998No. 97-2244PublishedCited by 198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
The facts alleged in this case are simple: that Pratt & Whitney refused to rehire Mark Duckworth because he had.a “poor” attendance rating resulting from his fifty-two day absence from work in 1994 caused by a serious health condition, an absence protected by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-54, and its state counterpart, Maine’s Family Medical Leave Requirements, Me.Rev.Stat. Ann. tit. 26, §§ 843-48 (West 1997). Duckworth says the refusal to rehire violated these laws because the employer’s decision was based on Duck-worth’s use of…
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