Legal Opinion
Donna Nicholson v. Pulte Homes Corp
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 2012No. 11-2238PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Donna Nicholson was a sales associate for Pulte Homes Corporation, a national homebuilder. When she failed to make her sales quotas for several months in a row, Pulte put her on a performance-improvement plan and later fired her when her sales did not improve. Nicholson claimed that her termination was related to her need to care for her ailing parents. She sued Pulte under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA” or “the Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., alleging that the company interfered with her statutory rights and retaliated against her in violation of the Act. The…
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