Legal Opinion
Debra Kinds v. The OH Bell Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2013No. 12-4048PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Debra Kinds, a decade-long employee of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, sought leave under .the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654, for nine weeks of work that she missed in late 2009. Ohio Bell denied Kinds’s request for FMLA leave with respect to three of those weeks when she failed to timely provide medical justification for the leave, and it then fired her because of her documented history of unexcused absences.
Kinds subsequently filed a lawsuit against Ohio Bell, alleging that the company had unlawfully interfered with the…
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