The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania July 17 advanced a nursing assistant’s claim that she was fired because she took Family and Medical Leave Act leave to care for her son, finding that Montgomery County was estopped from arguing that her FMLA discrimination claim should be dismissed based on her ineligibility under the leave law (Medley v. Montgomery, E.D. Pa., 2:12-cv-01995-JP, 7/17/12).
Because county officials led Amy Medley to believe that she qualified to take FMLA leave, the court decided that the county was precluded from asserting that her discrimination claim failed since ...
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